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#1. If there is one sin - or rather one waste - it is not doing what you have the inclination or gift for.

Oliver

#2. A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.

Karen Thompson Walker

#3. As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

Anna Quindlen

#4. Civilized my syphilised yarbles. Music always sort of sharpened me up, O my brothers, and made me like feel like old Bog himself, ready to make with the old donner and blitzen and have vecks and ptitsas creeching away in my ha ha power.

Anthony Burgess

#5. I prefer to look at it another way-which is that if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever. And it will never change back.

Veronica Roth

#6. There is always the risk: something is good and good and good and good, then all at once it gets awkward.

John Green

#7. What is astonishing is that we, who had no idea how anything was going to turn out, now know exactly what happened.

Philip Roth