Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.
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But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... 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He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ If [Baker] puts me in the lineup, I'll play. I would want to play. Unless he doesn't write me in the... DERREK LEE Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE When I first cut my hair short, I was trying for a mix of Mia Farrow and Jean Seberg. The photo I to... MORENA BACCARIN If I had been a man in a suit and tie, he would have never given me that clipboard and told me to wr... CAROL KAPLAN There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO I know that in this province, the buck would have stopped with me, ... I would first of all, if they... RALPH KLEIN If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground. DOROTHY L. SAYERS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Without those who tapped into the invisible world, humanity would have remained in the dark and back... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. AMIT RAY Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them... BIBLE I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l... IAN FRAZIER God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name." BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN We would play, then they would play a set, then we would jam on the last song. CHARLIE BYRD Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it. SHARON SALZBERG It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light. LAUREN LOLA For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian and German political degradations ... MARK TWAIN It's disappointing. They got a power-play goal in the first and a goal in the second I would want ba... BRENT JOHNSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live. ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ All the things that are in the past are in the past. PABLO SANDOVAL What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN What day is it?" It's today," squeaked Piglet. My favorite day," said Pooh. A.A. MILNE And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur... JAMES JONES Be present in all things and thankful for all things. MAYA ANGELOU Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is yo... BETTY SMITH Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN I hate saying corny things like 'traveling incognito.' But when I' with somebody that's corny, I alw... J.D. SALINGER Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ... IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there... ALBERT EINSTEIN The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment. LAUREN KATE Better to play dumb than to go as smartass… after all smartasses get what they deserve in the end.... 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