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- People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
- Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.
- Hugh Elliott, Bible Versus, 11-27-08
- There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.
- Gabrielle Zevin, Love Is Hell: Fan Fictions, 2008
- Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Quotations Blog, 09-19-07
- There's nothing like seeing a photo of yourself in happier days speeding toward your face in anger.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 01-07-09
- When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.
- John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
- It does not always follow that good men are good fathers.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Romeo and Juliet
- Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- I'm actually way more funny now, because I'm hungry... If comedy comes from pain, I should be funnier now than I ever was.
- Seth Rogen, on his weight loss
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