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One by one, drops fell from her eyes like they were on an assembly line - gather, fall, slide...gather, fall, slide...each one commemorating something she had lost. Hope. Faith. Confidence. Pride. Security. Trust. Independence. Joy. Beauty. Freedom. Innocence. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#grief #hurt-feelings #loss #lost-innocence #sadness

أنا أخبئ بين أقفاص صدري أوجاع نساء الأرض ودموع الصغار ، أنا أحمل على عاتقي خيبات ثكلى ! وفي حنجرتي تستقر حشرجة حزن مدوية .. أنا الأنثى التي تقام كل ليلة على مدائن قلبها مآتم الخذلان ! وبالرغم من ذلك الأسى المفرط .. . تبتسم وتمضي دونما إكتراث ! ↗

— نجلاء حسن

#faith #heart #love #reading #success

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artists #bad #fame #give #intoxication

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#carve #had #i #journalism #little

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#read #reasons #time #try #wrong

Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies. ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#been #before #came #cases #dark

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#commits #decide #dogma #earth #favor

I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#case #done #even #everything #had

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#dream #had #i #since #teenager

Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#claims #diligently #elizabeth #enough #explaining