"She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might die in the night, because she was alone in the world, because her desperate and empty life was not an overture but an ending, and through it all she could see was the rough, brutal shape of a coffin."

-- John Cheever

#Night Quotes #Might Quotes #Coffins Quotes

“Everyone else is either asleep or having sex.Â Iâ€™ve been watching cable television and eating jello.”
“It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.”
“I knew that I wanted to create rich themes, and something that people might really relate to emotionally. That was the quest, authenticity, and then just to make the audience feel something.”

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“Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.”
“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”
“Yeah, I've had the privilege to know a lot of really talented people.”
“Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.”
“I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.”

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