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A collection of bad love songs, tattered from overuse, has to touch us like a cemetery or a village. So what if the houses have no style, if the graves are vanishing under tasteless ornaments and inscriptions? Before an imagination sympathetic and re...

The Complete Short Stories of Marcel Proust

I can't go on, I'll go on.

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

If you take suede leather and put it on a piece of steel, and put moisture on it, it actually sticks.

Nik Wallenda

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

Paul Ince

The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

Melvil Dewey

I don't think that there is a person that I've met - I'm sure there are - that I've had any conflict with.

Sylvia Browne

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Maria Mitchell

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

Richard Dawkins

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Lawrence Clark Powell

My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

Magnus Carlsen

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Marianne Williamson

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

Hermann Maier

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

Magnus Carlsen

A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.

Emmett Kelly

Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!

Charles Atlas

I'll prove in only seven days that I can make you a new man.

Charles Atlas

My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do.

Nik Wallenda

To me, the idea of living this lifestyle is so boring that I would prefer to read Marcel Proust the whole time during a tour.

Laurent Brancowitz

Medals are decided by hundredths of a second, so I need assurance that my vision is perfect every time I compete, no matter what the conditions.

Lindsey Vonn

the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death

Allen Walker

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Maria Mitchell