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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
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz
“When people fail to follow these bizarre, secret rules, and the machine does the wrong thing, its operators are blamed for not understanding the machine, for not following its rigid specifications. With everyday objects, the result is frustration. With complex devices and commercial and industrial processes, the resulting difficulties can lead to accidents, injuries, and even deaths. It is time to reverse the situation: to cast the blame upon the machines and their design. It is the machine and its design that are at fault. It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.”
― Donald A. Norman, quote from Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised)
“Well, I’m not sure what happened next, but I ended up peeing on Mrs. Jarvis’s lawn.”
― quote from Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
“If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.”
― Cornelia Funke, quote from Sangre de tinta
“... je t'emmènerais dans une contrée resplendissante et prospère, au foyer d'une famille aristocratique des lettrés, fastueux domaine où abondent les fleurs et les saules, terroir de la douceur, de richesse et d'honneurs, pour t'installer dans la joie et en toute sécurité.
Cao Xueqin, "Le Rêve dans le pavillon rouge", trad, fr. par Li Tche-Houa, J. Alézaïs, révision par A. D'Hormon, Paris, Gallimard, "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", 1981, vol. 1, p. 8.”
― Cao Xueqin, quote from A Dream of Red Mansions
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