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I just find it interesting that kids apparently used to cry when Bambi's mother died. George and I both held our breaths, and then cheered when she didn't reanimate and try to eat her son.

Deadline

Forget perfect on the first try. In the face of frustration, your best tool is a few deep breaths, and remembering that you can do anything once you've practed two hundred times.

The Daring Book for Girls

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Dancing Girls

A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

Go a little easy on the people around you. Try to reel in judging thoughts. Think before you speak.

The Disciplined Leader: Keeping the Focus on What Really Matters

I'm trying to focus, telling myself these are just empty words, but I'm lying. Because somehow, just reading these words is too much; and the thought of her in pain is causing me an unbearable amount of agony.

Destroy Me

I’m trying to translate what my cat says and put it in a book, but how many homonyms are there for meow?

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

On our first date, you should wear a maternity dress, because I’m going to try to impregnate you.

The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

Try again; you have millions of alternatives. Fill yourself with the bullets of hope and you will kill failure with one shot.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

Don’t give up; try again. Be still and work it out till your good becomes the best! Dream high above the sky!

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison

If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things.

The Dragon Queen

What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed?

Dibs in Search of Self

You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.

Dreams of Sleep

Writing a novel is like trying to solve a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces aren't even fixed in shape. Yet, somehow, they all come together in the end to form the complete picture.

Dream's Sake

Though I knew in my mind that others had felt such loss, this loss was mine, and I felt that no one would ever understand it, and to try to explain the lonliness and pain I felt would be futile.

Dreams Unleashed

You don’t know anything about me, Tyler. I would suggest you stop trying to fucking psychoanalyse me. I’ve already told you that I have no love to give. We fuck, that’s about it with you and me.

Deviant

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World

But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists—seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection.

Everything Beautiful Began After

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

East of Eden

The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

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