"So this is how a person can come to despise himself-knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop."

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Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Daniel Keyes

#Knowing Quotes #Able Quotes #Despise Quotes

“A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.”
“... in nine out of ten cases the original wish to write is the wish to make oneself felt[ellipsis in source] the non-essential writer never gets past that wish.”
“I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it.”
“The physical powers of the body cannot be separated from the rationale of the mind and the emotions of the heart. They are one and the same, a compilation of a singular being. It is in the harmony of these three-body, mind, and heart- that we find spirit. ... Spirit. In every language in all the Realms, surface and Underdark, in every time and every place, the word has a ring of strength and determination. It is the hero's strength, the mother's resilience, and the poor man's armor. It cannot be broken, and it cannot be taken away.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Exile: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.224, Wizards of the Coast
“Freedom or community, community or freedom. One must decide the way one wants to live. I chose community.”
“If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough.”

Source : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.81, Chronicle Books
“From the world of passions returning to the world of passions: There is a moment's pause. If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”

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