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His name was Rambo, and he was just some nothing kid for all anybody knew, standing by the pump of a gas station at the outskirts of Madison, Kentucky.


David Morrell


#first-lines #military #military

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.


Suzanne Collins


#companionship #loneliness #comfort

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.


Haruki Murakami


#feeling

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.


Dorothy L. Sayers


#first-sentence #opening-lines #roses #first-sentence

Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain,in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness.


Vladimir Nabokov


#path

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.


Charlotte Brontë


#opening-lines #opening-sentences #walks #first-sentence

This is the secret to mastering any discipline: as you conquer one, you'll find it easier to tackle another.


Jeff Goins


#writing-craft #writing-craft

Each one of us needs to discover the proper balance between the masculine and feminine energies, between the active and the receptive. (104)


Ravi Ravindra


#balance #feminine #masculine #receptive #yoga

A fuel pump is a fountain drink machine for cars. And people who want to save the environment and get drunk and run to work.



Jarod Kintz


#drunk #environment #fuel #gas #gasoline

What have I become? My sweetest friend; everyone I know goes away in the end. And you could have it all: my empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.


Nine Inch Nails


#friend #hurt #loneliness #nothing #random






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