“You string people along long enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“You string people along enough, the string withers, then it breaks - Seamus”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“Because frying bacon is how we stoic Irishmen say I love you.”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“Her eyes, they shone like diamonds I thought her the queen of the land And her hair, it hung over her shoulder Tied up with a black velvet band.”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
“love New York City from the Battery to the Bronx, but”
― James Patterson, quote from I, Michael Bennett
James Patterson
Born place: in Newburgh, New York, The United States
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“نویسندگان بزرگ یا شوهرند یا معشوق. برخی نویسندگان فضایل استوار یک شوهر را به ما عرضه میکنند: قابل اتکا، فهیم، سخی، برازنده. در سوی دیگر نویسندگانی قرار دارند که در آنها قابلیتهای یک معشوق را ستایش میکنیم، قابلیتهایی که از طبیعت و مزاج برمیآیند تا فضیلت اخلاقی. زنها به شکلی عجیب ویژگیهایی چون بیثباتی، خودخواهی، غیرقابلاتکا بودن، و خشونت را که در مورد شوهر هرگز با آنها کنار نمیآیند در معشوق خود میپذیرند، به شرط آنکه در عوض نوعی هیجان و فوران احساسی شدید را تجربه کنند. به همین سیاق، خوانندگان نیز با فهمناپذیری، وسواسی بودن، حقایق دردناک، دروغ، یا دستور زبان بد کنار میآیند-اگر در عوض نویسنده امکان چشیدن عواطفی کمیاب و احساساتی خطرناک را در اختیارشان قرار دهد. و همانطور که در زندگی وجود شوهر و معشوق هر دو ضروری است، در هنر نیز چنین است. باعث تاسف است که ناگزیر باشیم میان آنها دست به انتخاب بزنیم
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― Susan Sontag, quote from Against Interpretation and Other Essays
“Solace is what we must look for when the mind cannot bear the pain, the loss or the suffering that eventually touches every life and every endeavour; when longing does not come to fruition in a form we can recognize, when people we know and love disappear, when hope must take a different form than the one we have shaped for it.”
― David Whyte, quote from Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“I understand—” I gasp. “. . . and you will not stand in my way.” “I will not stand in your way,” I parrot. It’s all I can manage.”
― Kyra Davis, quote from Just One Night
“They say this cemetery full, but I’d gladly help free up a spot fo’ that one,”
― J.D. Horn, quote from The Source
“We are inclined sometimes to wring our hands much more profousely over the situation of another than the mental attitude of that other [..] would seem to warrant. People do not grieve so much sometimes over their own state as we imagine. They suffer, but they bear it manfully. [...] We see, as we grieve for them, the whole detail of their blighted carreer, a vast confused imagery of mishaps covering years, much as we read a double decade tragedy in a ten-hour novel. The victim, meanwhile, for the single day or morrow is not actually anguished. He meets his unfolding fate by the minute and the hour ast it comes.”
― Theodore Dreiser, quote from Sister Carry
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