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“After your jump, the net appears. - Vincent Lauria”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I still make coffee for two. - Zak Nelson”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. - Margaret Hellerstein”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Internal age doesn't match external age. - Carol Smith”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Followed white rabbit. Became black sheep. - Gabrille Maconi”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Love drama, just not my own. - Sam Zalutsky”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Never lived up to my potential. - Leslie Sterling”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I imagined more than office jobs. - Gretchen Vitamvas”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I live the perfect imperfect life. -Paul Lore”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“I'm the fine print; read closely. -Kristina Grish”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Memory was my drug of choice. -Pea Hicks”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Taking a lifetime to grow up.”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. -Margaret Hellerstein”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Her blue eyes
capture the distance.
-Sonya Cheuse”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Revenge is living well, without you. -Joyce Carol Oates”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“Well, I thought it was funny. -Stephen Colbert”
― quote from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
“He was half a politician, and like most of his kind he was an insecure man.”
― Ross Macdonald, quote from The Chill
“My last chance had vanished into itself like a snail coiling up into his shell.
Insidiously I had lost my grip, and now this was it. I thought all this without much emotion. I really didn't care anymore. I couldn't hang on anymore. I didn't have the guts to kill myself, but I didn't want it to continue. I walked a couple of blocks, empty, listless, and wished I could cry.
...The diabolic hope, the purposeful pulsing of blood, the flight into coherence allowed for some rationalizing an afterlife. A new theology was evolving, one that had a faith-in-death clause. It was evolved when I kicked a dead waterbug on the pavement. It was dried out, hollowed, emptied, like some kind of shell. Maybe, I thought, its body is a shell, maybe all bodies are shells. We hatch and die. Our spirit or something like that is the yoke: it lives the real life, the true life.
It wasn't comforting.”
― Arthur Nersesian, quote from The Fuck-Up
“The authority of government, even such as I am willing to submit to— for I will cheerfully obey those who know and can do better than I, and in many things even those who neither know nor can do so well— is still an impure one: to be strictly just, it must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.”
― Henry David Thoreau, quote from Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
“Like children in a dark room, like wayfarers passing a graveyard at night, the four men in the canoe filled the surrounding darkness with the fear from their own hearts.”
― Richard Adams, quote from Shardik
“The lack of goodness in the young gun's heart was oxygen to the fire, and so he burned for a good long while before I woke. The dream stoked my faith in the judgment and justice that will come someday or this afternoon soon. I turn up the collar of my white robe, relieved to know that God's got me covered 'cause I'm good, but not that good.”
― Nikki Grimes, quote from Bronx Masquerade
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