"It's like seeing someone for the first time, and you look at each other for a few seconds, and there's this kind of recognition like you both know something. Next moment the person's gone, and it's too late to do anything about it."

-- Elmore Leonard

#Firsts Quotes #Looks Quotes #Too Late Quotes

“I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve.”
“A story works when there's momentum, life behind the words. Some stories have this and others don't, and it's difficult to say why this is. If all stories "worked," though, writing wouldn't be much of a challenge; it wouldn't be art.”
“I found the ability to become still. The hardest thing for people to do is just be still. And in that stillness you create motion.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.”
“Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to read them out. I could never listen to even the better kind of modern novels without extreme irksomeness.”
“A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.”
“Was he a good kisser, Ms. Lane?â€ Barrons asked, watching me carefully. I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand at the memory. â€œIt was like being owned.â€ Some women like that.â€ Not me.â€ Perhaps it depends on the man doing the owning.â€ I doubt it. I couldnâ€™t breathe with him kissing me.â€ One day you may kiss a man you canâ€™t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.â€ Right, and one day my prince might come.â€ I doubt heâ€™ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”
“The greater part of our writers have become so original, that no one cares to imitate them: and those who never quote in return are seldom quoted.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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