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“In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.”
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“I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it.”
Source : "Introducing Shannyn Sossamon" By Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. May 11, 2001.
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“What I eventually realized is that the real business of books is not done by awards committees or people who turn trees into paper or editors or agents or even writers. We're all just facilitators. The real business is done by readers.”
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“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
Source : "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.
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“I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.”
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“Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.”
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“A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.”
Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.62
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“She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.”