"I don't reread my books."

-- Graham Swift

“I am moving deeper into my own brain.”

Source : Peter Porter (1972). “Preaching to the converted”, Not Avail
“A Gallagher Girl's real grades donâ€™t come in pass or failâ€”they're measured in life or death.”
“I was just in Las Vegas, where prostitution is legal. Which is a relief because I live in Los Angeles, where it is mandatory.”
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”
“When you find inner peace, neither the presence nor absence of any person, place or thing, condition, circumstance, or situation can be the Creator of your state of mind or the cause of your experience of being.”
“Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.”
“Men are loyal when you lead from the front.”
“Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.”

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