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I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.


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The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.

The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep.



All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.



The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.

The wandering one, the inquisitive dreamer of dreams, the eternal asker of answers, stands in the street, and lifts his palms for the first cold ghost of rain.



[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.



Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!



My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.



I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.

I'm afraid I wasn't much of a student, but my casual reading was enormous.



O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.

O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.



Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.



Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.





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The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.



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I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the end, the more difficult it got. You don't see things clearly as long as you're still involved.



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In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.



The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.

The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic - just one of those unfortunate things.



When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.



The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.



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Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset.



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I don't make mistakes. I bury them.



When opting out from partnership is so easy, every minor disagreement is perceived as a major catastrophe and irreparable disaster.

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