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We who bore the mark might well be considered by the rest of the world as strange, even as insane and dangerous. We had awoken, or were awakening, and we were striving for an ever perfect state of wakefulness, whereas the ambition and quest for happi...

Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

They couldn't talk. They were not good talkers, either of them. And once, long ago now, she had bought a notebook for a course. It lay empty and forgotten on the kitchen table until one afternoon, when she had gone out to the shops and he was worried...

Hawthorn & Child

The reason why she had chosen journalism was because of those who had done so before her. Stalwart women and men who reported stories in the days before the Internet. Before it was fashionable to learn Mass Communication. A long time before being a T...

Between The Headlines

A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have...

Kafka on the Shore

Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didin't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we didn't have any delinquents. Without a prison, there can't be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys therefore among us there were n...

John (Fire) Lame Deer

Nadya Zelenin and her mother had returned from a performance of Eugene Onegin at the theatre. Going into her room, the girl swiftly threw off her dress and let her hair down. Then she quickly sat at the table in her petticoat and white bodice to writ...

Anton Chekhov

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

The First Confessor

After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.

Lord of Chaos

❤ Without peace in your life....what good is anything else?✌

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.

JoBeth Williams

Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.

Penelope Lively

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

Patton Oswalt

I think deep down I'm spiritual, but there's nothing I practice.

Stella McCartney

As a rule, all relationships go through their ups and downs. It's really about how much you want it.

Malaika Arora Khan

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

Simon Baker

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Will Ferrell

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

Neon Hitch

I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives.

Heather O'Reilly

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Isabel Allende