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Kay Ryan
"It’s hard not to jump out instead of waiting to be found. It’s hard to be alone so long and then hear someone come around. It’s like some form of skin’s developed in the air that, rather than have torn, you tear. "Hide and Seek" --
Kay Ryan
#Air Quotes
#Long Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
“To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but of great boldness of imagination.”
“Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.”
Source : Esquire, June 1960
“But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.”
“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”
“Take nothing personally. Nothing is ever personal. No matter what anyone ever does to you, EVER, it’s not cause of you. It’s cause them, always. All you gotta know is THAT, just freaking take that with you everywhere, and you can just be happy all the time.”
“Use different basketball offensive alignments to cause confusion for the other team.”
“One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." There are few people who would actually want to share a life with someone who held that concept near and dear.”
“President Bush listed his income as $822,000. You know what John Kerry calls someone who earns $822,000? Not even worth dating.”