"There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it."

Emotion, Tragedy, Desire, Life, Heart

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

Stephen King, American Author

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"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Memory, Space, Truth

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Today, Happiness, Power, Truth

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

Stephen King, American Author

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"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Beauty, Wisdom, Today

"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."

Stephen King, American Author

Emotion, Truth, Wisdom, Today, Power

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

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"An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

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