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“I never expected to sell my art. It wasn't like today where you come out of art school and they promise you a future. Now it's almost regulated in a way. When we came out of school, we just wanted to make art that'd blow your hair back and do it for sport. There was no commercial possibility that we saw.”

Way Art Today Wanted School Sports Saws Possibility Hair Promise Sells Blow Expected Art School Where You Come

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.”

Years Said Hard Running Strong Wind Hair Promise Letting Go Six Twenties Forgiving Fingers Blow Thirty New Year Sixteen Forgive Me Old Year Hard To Let Go

Book:An ordinary woman

Source: An ordinary woman

“Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”

Knows Men Age Time Cases Loneliness Hair Promise Decades Lists Enthusiasm Thirty Feeling Lonely Single Man 30th Birthday Great Gatsby American Dream

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines.”

Black Hair Promise Magazines Black Hair

Book:The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

Source: The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic

“You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?”

Source: The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles

“No offense, but I’m getting stir-crazy. Can we please go downstairs and hang in the bar or do anything that keeps me from sitting here bored out of my mind while the three of you watch me grow eyebrow hair? I mean really, I am fine. I’m not going to spontaneously combust or do anything else freaky. Promise. (Tory)”

Mind Mean Three Grows Watches Crazy Hair Fine Please Promise Sitting Bars Bored Offense Eyebrows Of My Mind Watch Me Freaky Stir Crazy

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He murmers into my hair, "Forget what I said earlier, let's stick with this, I might not survive anything more." I laugh. Then he jumps up, finds my wrists, and pins them over my head. "Yeah, right. Totally joking, I want to do everything with you, whenever you're ready, I'm the one, promise?" He's above me, batting and grinning like a total hooplehead. "I promise," I say. "Good. Glad that's decided." He raises an eyebrow. "I'm going to deflower you, John Lennon.”

Want Said Might Forget Laughing Ready Hair Promise Decided Raises Yeah Sticks Glad Eyebrows Pins I Promise Wrists Lennon Grinning Batting

Author:Jandy Nelson

“The two of us warmed by a bold beam of light that wicks the moisture from my dress, my hair, and my skin—returning it to the sky where it promises to find me again in the form of dew, snow, or rain.”

Two Light Form Sky Hair Promise Rain Skins Dresses Snow Find Me Dew Beam Two Of Us Moisture Beams Of Light

Author:Alyson Noel