Par Lagerkvist Quotes

#1. When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Garrison Keillor

#2. -No, the man said, looking past him with his empty gaze, the realm of the dead isn't anything. But to those who have been there, nothing else is anything either.

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#3. Clean and bleed. Bleed and clean.

Gillian Flynn

#4. When people ask me about the definition of a copywriter, I say, "If I become a good copywriter, I will have the ability to bring nonliving people to life.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#5. Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

Joey Fatone

#6. I don't need to be liked.

John Malkovich

#7. I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#8. Dear GIRLS your very own identity is more important than a marriage certificate.

Amit Abraham

#9. Bitter, too, to be forced to acknowledge in one's heart how little love has to do with kindness.

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#10. Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

#11. But perhaps there are two sides to everyone.

K. Weikel

#12. What happened to Tomas Mandray?" I asked, the words strangled.
"I realized he wouldn't have gone with me to save you from Prythian.

Sarah J. Maas

#13. Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.

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