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«We all have ghosts, remorse, dreams, things we love and hate. One day something in life - a word, a phrase, something in a book, a beautiful woman - clicks, and part of that world takes on a special meaning. And you realize you have a story to tell.»
Author: Arturo Perez Reverte
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
click, clicked, clicking, clicks, ghosts, ghost stories, love story, phrase, remorse
«The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.»
«What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.»
Author: William Goldman
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admitted, billy, frenzy, haunted, passing game, petrified, petrifies, petrifying, phrase, pressed, pretended, secretly
«What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.»
«The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny'»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| About:
Discovery
| Keywords:
discoveries, Eureka, exciting, funny, herald, heralding, heralds, phrase, phrased, phrasing, The Herald
«What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
collecting, elegant, ignominies, ignominy, phrase, pin, polished, transfixed, transfixing
«When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Books,
Reading
| Keywords:
across, come across, eyes-only, now and then, passage, phrase, phrased, phrasing
«The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
Englishman, foreign, foreign affairs, phrase, subjects
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