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“You are safe with me." "I am not at all safe, with you. But I have no desire to be elsewhere.”

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A. S. Byatt is a celebrated British novelist, recognized for her intricate narratives and literary style. Born on August 24, 1936, she has made substantial contributions to literature with her distinctive voice and storytelling. more

“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.”

“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”

“Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.”

Missing Baby Planes Sunset Before Sunset

Author:Julie Delpy

“Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.”

Years Government Running Social Religious Practice Program Institutions Bills Clinton Social Programs

Author:Tony Campolo

“This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.”

Ifs Firsts Winning Situation Watches Lessons Losing Cheating Gambling

Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.”

Real Awful Nightmare Relieved Before Sunset

Author:Julie Delpy

“Men go out with me, we break up and then they get married. And later they call me to thank me for teaching them what love is. That I tought them to care and respect women. (...) I wanna kill them! Why didn't they ask me to marry them? I would've said no, but at least they could have asked.”

Men Said Care Asks Love Is Break Teaching Married Ask Me Call Me Respect Women Before Sunset

Author:Julie Delpy

“The heart is a strange beast and not ruled by logic.”

Heart Strange Logic Beast

Book:Touch of Power

Source: Touch of Power

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