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Salvatore Quasimodo

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Thy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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JEAN OFFUTT I'll probably be forced to take two days' holiday to cover my time spent waiting at the airport wast...
BOB EVANS It's not uncommon for men to show up at my book signings or to send me emails with their thought...
SYLVIA DAY Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least o...
AVI There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
CARL BARKS I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when ...
LAURA LEIGHTON I wonder
if you ever read my poems
and wish
they were written
for you.
KAMAND KOJOURI My comments at that time were based upon some projects that were coming forward that, when you read ...
DAVE PARKER I had been writing poems and stories since I learned to make letters. I had placed poems in a hardco...
JEFF LINDSAY I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to o...
NINA BAWDEN Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
ANNE STEVENSON I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to...
PATTI SMITH I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good...
AVI A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who w...
CLARENCE THOMAS Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes...
MARK LAWRENCE I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.
CAROL ANN DUFFY GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON When I pass my name in such large letters I blush, but at the same time instinctively raise my hat.
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LYDIA DAVIS My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometim...
JANE AUSTEN For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacl...
BETTE HOWLAND In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written ...
OSCAR WILDE Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain.
ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life.
ASA DON BROWN Your spiritual mind is greater than your physical mind.
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ASA DON BROWN Our human quest is to survive; our spiritual quest is to unite.
ASA DON BROWN Life is a combination of our positive and negative choices.
ASA DON BROWN I’m more of a one-time reader. There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go ba...
DEB BAKER My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be en...
ELMORE LEONARD We had to do some other things at that point, but we were still OK and had a chance to win the game.
DAVE SCHULTZ At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty year...
FRANK WARREN If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poe...
SARAH VOWELL My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come t...
ERIC KANDEL There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.
ALEC BALDWIN He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi...
JOHN AUBREY He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi...
ISAAC ASIMOV We knew from the very beginning that this was a Soviet crime. There were letters (from the detention...
ANDRZEJ WAJDA It's not a time for anarchy or trying to make a buck. My real concern is the impoverished people wai...
AMY WILSON When men allow other people to ridicule, laugh and jeer at the truth, that cannot but bring sorrow t...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, y...
TANANARIVE DUE You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people...
FRED DURST For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always s...
FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school ...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON I've read everything that Isaac Asimov ever wrote, for a start. I'm massively into my fantas...
ROBERT KAZINSKY I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150...
STEPHEN HOPKINS People pay a million dollars to be recognized, but nobody cares about them. They cared about me beca...
EVEL KNIEVEL My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be ...
YEHUDA AMICHAI I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest respo...
FAY WRAY If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very ...
WENTWORTH MILLER I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychologic...
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...
SUSANNA KAYSEN He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other ...
JOHN AUBREY I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents t...
MAEVE BINCHY There's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable.
CELINE DION I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year&#...
MICHEL PATINI My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My m...
RANDI WEINGARTEN Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my...
CAMRYN MANHEIM I’m interested in connecting with readers and strangers through poetry. I want to create real inti...
ALEX DIMITROV People that guessed a slower time were sent off first. That way, we wouldn't have to spend a lot of ...
KRIS LEBEDOFF That's my entire weekend. I had plans"

"A Vampire Dairies marathon is not plans." She loo...
DARYNDA JONES But they were there, ... Every time I drove they were there, waiting for me.
CHRIS DUHON But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.
SARAH DOUDNEY I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the ra...
CATHERINE HARDWICKE If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
SHERMAN ALEXIE My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my care...
FRED FUNK Because we had received information they were carrying bombs ready to be exploded at any time, our m...
ERWIN MAPPASENG Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-o...
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JERRY SPINELLI I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired m...
TONY DITERLIZZI Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as...
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CHERYL RAINFIELD My observations to date are that most people are waiting their turn at the four-way.
DAN SHEREIKA

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