"Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule."

-- Matthew Specktor

#Celebration Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Prelude Quotes

“In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: â€œHelp me!”
“I'm not a politician, She says evenly. If I want to be one, I'll run for office. Susan Sarandon, whom I know and love, is a fantastic actress. It's her right as an American to say whatever she wants. [But] just because you're rich and famous doesn't qualify you to make political statements. I don't put my opinions out there to influence people. You have alot of influence. And sometimes I feel it's undeserved influence.”
“She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby's neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again.”
“You can have more, be more and do more because you can change the person you are.”
“Happy Birthday." Adrian came to a sudden halt. The words were soft and small, spoken tentatively, but easily discerned by vampire ears. Slowly, he turned around and found Jill Mastrano standing shyly before him.”
“Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.”
“Everyone can cook. If you try. If you put a little love into it.”
“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”

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