Eileen Favorite famous quotes

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  • The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

  • The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.

  • Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.

  • Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

  • I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z, Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z, Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty, B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too. You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to

  • It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

  • The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

  • In Bosnian, there's no distinction in literature between fiction and nonfiction; there's no word describing that.

  • I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

  • Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill!

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