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“Maybe the private life wasn't forever. Maybe everyone got it for a little while and then spent the rest of their lives remembering.”

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Ann Patchett

Ann Patchett, born on December 2, 1963, is a renowned American author. Her works are known for their profound character development and engaging storytelling, earning her numerous literary awards and the admiration of readers worldwide. more

“If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.”

Ifs Men World Soul One Thing One Day Acquire Someday Legends Something Better Copper Personal Legend

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.”

Thinking Way I Can Tomorrow Another Day Tomorrow Is Another Day Get Him Back

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Mean Feelings Accepting Nice Stupid Glasses Boxes Brown Lazy Purple Sweden Vodka Petite

Book:The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Source: The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara

“Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”

People Feels Feelings Hate Feel Better Introvert People In Your Life Don't Hate Hate People Misanthropy I Hate People Man Hater

Author:Charles Bukowski

“I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.”

Thinking Should Art Lying Artist Lines Cities Scene Lows Sticks Parks

Author:Walter Kirn

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

Inspirational Two Book Humor Funny Reading Enjoy Motive Boast Book Reading Reading Habits

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.”

Knows Men World Doe Natural Fields Perception Setting Settings My Thoughts Explicit

Book:Phenomenology of Perception

Source: Phenomenology of Perception

“If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!”

Ifs Years Eye Asks Chance Alive Thousand Clothes His Eyes Thousand Years Corpses

Author:Meher Baba

“What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.”

Way Ends Mankind Sick Chaos One Way

Author:Meher Baba

“...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.”

Courses Pleasure Source Slippery

Author:Billy Collins

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