Quotes of: Evening Keyword

Do I own my soul, or would two of my clones?

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I keep odd hours. I keep them stuffed under my mattress.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

I’ll write something that’s 111% true. It’ll be so true that it’ll be 100% false.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

The most deadly combination known to man is low IQ and high testosterone.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

When everything is working out for you, it means you are in the wrong gym.

At even one penny, this book would be overpriced. In fact, free is too expensive, because you'd still waste time by reading it.

If the relation of morality to art were based simply on the demand that art be concerned with values, then almost every author should satisfy it even if he wrote with his prick while asleep. (Puritans will object to the language in that sentence, and...

Finding a Form

It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like t...

Franny and Zooey

Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

in human males, testosterone appears to promote behavior intended to dominate other people. This behavior can be expressed aggressively, even violently, as well as nonaggressively. Testosterone levels, even a single baseline measurement, correlate we...

Biology of Aggression

But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one ...

But I Love Him

But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge of the world that he will effect a way to dictate th...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows...

Junot Diaz

Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in society, in which two persons, while ostensibly remaining on friendly terms, are contemptuous of each other to such a degree that they cannot even treat...

Anna Karenina

O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.

As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse

...your mind was seizing on something to try to make sense of the emotion... Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day?

Rise of the Evening Star

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a few notes of a song or a solitary whiff of a room. A song you didn't even pay attention to at the time, a place that you di...

Something Borrowed

Friends are like the stars that glow in the sky... you don't always see them, but you know they're always there overhead, and even when it's cloudy, snowy or stormy, even when the power goes out and you're trapped in darkness, they'll always find a w...

Smog City

The woman was finally done, and Beatrix reached for a magazine. There were always German magazines lying around here, was extremely rare; who wanted to read German magazines, anyway? Twin Murders in Stuttgart. Certainly an awful place, it even sounde...

Simultan: Erzählungen

I did a finger painting today, and you can hardly even see my brushstrokes. Similarly, when we make love, you won’t even notice that I’m there.

My love can only occupy one person at a time

Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

I am," I said To no one there An no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," said I And I am lost, and I can't even say why Leavin' me lonely still

Neil Diamond - 12 Greatest Hits Volume 2