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"And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?"
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"I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending."
"She was thinking of his mouth on hers. Which seemed only fair since he'd given a lot of thought to the same thing."'Night, she whispered."Night, he whispered back.And yet neither of them moved."
"It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album."
"Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a doorman awaiting the arrival of her royal majesty."
"Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so."
"Oh, goodie," Puck said as I stepped forward. "I'm going to have a rash in the most uncomfortable places."
"..."Oh, Marilla, looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them, exclaimed Anne. "You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them. Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.' But I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed...."
"You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that indiscreetly outshouts the message that the book itself must communicate directly, that you must extract from the book, however much or little it may be. Of course, this circling of the book, too, this reading around it before reading inside it, is a part of the pleasure in a new book, but like all preliminary pleasures, it has its optimal duration if you want it to serve as a thrust toward the more substantial pleasure of the consummation of the act, namely the reading of the book."
"There were those emotions down there, and though she couldn't quite feel them, they were strong and she feared them. It was like watching a thunderhead from high up in a plane, and though you weren't under it, you knew how it would feel if you were. You knew you'd have to land eventually."
"Weak people cannot be sincere."
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"Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone."
"Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea."
"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."
"Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man."
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