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“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

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Robert Hass is an American poet known for his concise and profound poetry style. His works explore themes of nature, history, and the human condition, and have won numerous literary awards. more

“He reached out, opened the glove compartment, and took out a gun. It was a Smith & Wesson .38 five-shot special. It looked a lot like my gun. "I stopped by your apartment this morning and picked this up for you," Ranger said. "I found it in the cookie jar." "Tough guys always keep their gun in the cookie jar." "Name one." "Rockford." Ranger grinned. "I stand corrected.”

Said Guy Found Names Morning Five Special Gun Shots Tough Apartment Cookies Gloves Jars Rangers Tough Guy Cookie Jars

Author:Janet Evanovich

“Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.”

Chickens Pox

Author:Kami Garcia

“Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.”

Ifs Feels Responsibility Fairs Burden

Book:Alice I Have Been: A Novel

Source: Alice I Have Been: A Novel

“Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.”

Men Beast Jane

Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

Should Writing Art Garden Educational Gardening Gardener

Book:In the Garden ...

Source: In the Garden ...

“I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.”

Men Believe Soul Earth Heaven Poor Ready Angel Lifts Exhausted Console Saddened

Author:George Sand

“The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.”

Men Mean Made Results Picks Critics Oneself Statements Unreliable Personal Statement

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire.”

People Knows Men Wish Havens Sells Millionaire

Author:Jason Aldean

“. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .”

Glee

Book:A Week in December

Source: A Week in December

“I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.”

People Knows Book Real Dies Loneliness Periods Blessing Phones No Friends

Book:Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Source: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

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