It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
Susanna Kaysen
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SUSANNA KAYSEN if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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DANA SPIOTTA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE He's one of the reasons I became a coach. I'd always be one of the first ones at practice to see how...
DICK WHITTEN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ...
GERMANY KENT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you not reason then to be ashamed and to forbear this filthy novelty, so basely grounded, so fo...
JAMES VI & I A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
SOTONYE ANGA To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q...
JAMES RHODES Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
ZEBULON PIKE The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
ELIZABETH GEORGE To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist....
GAYLE FORMAN John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.
BETTY WILLIAMS The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I became a vegetarian for about maybe a year. It was more of a little detox for me. I tend to do a l...
TIA MOWRY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI either you get eaten by a wolf today or else the shepherd saves you from the wolf so he can sell you...
OGDEN NASH The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Dare to seize and make the most of all opportunities that life bring to your path.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.
ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES Maybe it's not finding a reason, it's trusting that there is one.
ANONOMYOUS. To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret....
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Strange frowned. He seeme...
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SUSANNA MOORE The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian...
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SUSANNA HOFFS Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle ...
SUSANNA KEARSLEY [A] smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear.
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SUSANNA CLARKE She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fa...
SUSANNA CLARKE In theater and dance, I was trying to win someone's approval, trying to get in, trying to be goo...
SUSANNA HOFFS On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well a...
SUSANNA MOORE She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets...
SUSANNA CLARKE Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed t...
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SUSANNA CLARKE In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of mag...
SUSANNA CLARKE I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other peop...
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SUSANNA KEARSLEY Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God,...
SUSANNA WESLEY The exhibit will focus on Slovaks in church and school, in business, sports, entertainment, politics...
SUSANNA SWADE As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was s...
SUSANNA MOORE Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar,...
SUSANNA MOODIE The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.
SUSANNA CLARKE No one recognizes me. And I hope that I can always go out without being recognized. Maybe that limit...
SUSANNA THOMPSON In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war...
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SUSANNA KEARSLEY The mind of youth eagerly catches at promised pleasure: pure and innocent by nature, it thinks not o...
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SUSANNA DUDIYEVA Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the d...
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SUSANNA DUDIYEVA Lying is a thriving vocation.
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SUSANNA CLARKE Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!"
"Except f...
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SUSANNA DUDIYEVA It was a difficult conversation -- but we had it. We hope results will follow from this meeting. He ...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA He can't comprehend what we've been through. He's a father. I want to tell him what we've been throu...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA We need to look him in the eyes and tell him that he is responsible for the deaths of our children.....
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA The government is supposed to guarantee our lives, take responsibility for our lives, and they haven...
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA We will ask questions and demand an answer.
SUSANNA DUDIYEVA We ask questions, and they don't answer.
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SUSANNA DUDIYEVA The most painful questions are left unanswered.
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SUSANNA CLARKE And does he like blondes, as well?'
Rob laughed. I had forgotten just how great a laugh he had....
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I reached out my han...
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SUSANNA CLARKE And ye sall walk in silk attire,
And siller hae to spare,
Gin ye'll consent to be his bride,
...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie dow...
SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE Jenny, she's aw weet, peer body,
Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
In...
MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN