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When a man plans, a woman laughs.


David Wong


#humour #men #paraphrased #plans #women

They should." "Should be like a wood bee," she said. It was a private joke, a mocking appreciation of the slipperiness of even the simplest hope, a nonce catchphrase like so many others lifted from favorite movies or TV shows that served as a rote substitute for conversation and bound them like shut-in twins, each other's best and, most often, only audience.


Stewart O'Nan


#conversation #hope #movies #pop-culture #tv-shows

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.


Harold Ross


#back #day #few #filled #his

If you feel you have the right key, you try to make some phrase or sound that will fit.


Jan Garbarek


#fit #key #make #phrase #right

There's a certain phraseology involved in jazz, and I've moved away from that.


Jan Garbarek


#certain #i #involved #jazz #moved

Macon Ethan I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived because he had died a dry ocean, a desert of emotion happysad darklight sorrowjoy swept over me, under me i could hear the sound but i could not understand the words and then i realized the sound was me, breaking in one moment i was feeling everything and i was feeling nothing i was shattered, i was saved, i lost everthing, i was given everything else something in me died, something in me was born, i only knew the girl was gone whoever i was now, i would never be her again this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper claim yourself claim yourself claim yourself claim gratitude fury love despair hope hate first green is gold but nothing green can stay dont try nothing green can stay -Lena Duchannes


Kami Garcia


#beauty

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size


Melissa Nathan


#melissa-nathan #paraphrased #pride-and-prejudice #humor

[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.


Saint John Climacus


#good-phrase #religion-is-wrong #religion

Discretion is the better part of not getting exsanguinated.


Jim Butcher


#harry-dresden #paraphrased #valor #harry-dresden

A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.


Mikhail Bakunin


#absolute #admire #condition #existed #god






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