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If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

A Life Less Ordinary: A Memoir

There’s a big line between beauty and nudity, Alice! A man does not need provocative dressing to see the beauty in a woman.

Love Me Once More

Susie . . . ” With his hands on her face, he found her eyes. “If you make love with me and then go back to him, you’ll ruin me".

Line of Scrimmage

As you near a finish line, do not slow down. Instead, run faster. Give all you have left until it is done. It is then that you may collapse.

The Little Silkworm

There is a thin line that separates life from death, but once it's crossed, it becomes as large as an ocean, and so treacherous that it’s impossible to cross back.

The Sea Of Forgotten Memories

Tonight I can write the saddest lines I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

Rosalie had never been one to question or accuse, just to forgive -- but I guess everyone had their limits when it came to tolerance levels, and I’d crossed the line.

Tess Embers

From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...

Titus Groan

He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

Orlando

Great Gates almighty,” HARV said inside my brain. “I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS.

The Plutonium Blonde

It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that; it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

Persuasion

Life lessons are not journeys traveled in straight lines but are crossroads formed years and miles apart.

Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to unscrew the door from its jamb.

Paper Towns

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

Annie winced. "Ooooh, you know, it's remarks like that that lead people to draw unflattering conclusions about your sanity.

A Thin Dark Line

And another thing - don't get too comfortable. Take chances. Don't be afraid to lay it on the line. Even if you're happy. Even if you think life is freaking perfect.

Tangled

I want to mass produce wretchedness. An unsatisfactory factory. Then I want to produce cologne and stench—at different ends of the production line. So it would be an olfactory factory.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.

Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

If you convert a shower curtain to a dress, I’ll wear my waterproof dancing shoes. Together we’ll move so fluidly people will line up to get cleansed.

Xazaqazax

There’s cat feces in my Batman costume, and all the lines in my screenplay were snorted by the neighborhood cokehead. Ah, but that’s life, no?

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first esc...

Anthony Hecht