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The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. ↗

— John Cheever

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One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires. ↗

— Robert Collier

#desires #different #different directions #directions #equal

No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back. ↗

— Dick Cheney

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My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up. ↗

— Gene Tierney

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Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. ↗

— Morris Chestnut

#destructive #get #grounded #lives #lost

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#bad #being #despite #fact #ginsberg

Surrender the vert platonic bond tying your soul to mine craft, the sky fades a pink shadow cast. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#cast #craft #fades #mine #pink

When something that occupies a giant space in your life comes to an end, then you have to go through a mourning period. I loved 'The Shield.' It was one of the hardest and one of the greatest experiences of my life. But having said that, I'm always thinking about what's next. ↗

— Michael Chiklis

#always #comes #end #experiences #giant

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked. ↗

— Lee Child

#another #answer #become #book #desperation

Souls are designed to fit inside a body. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#designed #fit #inside #souls