"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

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"Be as good as you would want to follow yourself."

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"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."

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"But suppose your dA mon settles in a shape you don't like?Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dA mon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is.But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

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"I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner."

Alfa H, American Author

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"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."

John Fowles, English Novelist

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"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

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"Be as good as you would want to follow yourself."

"Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy."

"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."

"I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943."

"Metias is gone again. He is always gone."

"Serious people make a decision to read your fully story before they write you off. Don't worry about those who don't have time to know you."

"I don't want comfortable. My heart is not a recliner."

"It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly."

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded."

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"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."

"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."

"In violence, we forget who we are."

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