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reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five, James Sturm
reading differences people
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference. Brandon Sanderson
reading airplane seeing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Ben Mezrich
reading book writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading reality order
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets. Azar Nafisi
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading enemy quitting
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance. Jan Karon
our-generation vampire generations
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. Neil Gaiman
our-generation environmental trying
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters. Michael Stipe
our-generation together generations
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. Jeffrey Sachs
our-generation cities common-purpose
When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance. Jeff Myers
our-generation generations sin
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. Francis Schaeffer
our-generation somewhere-else laughing
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased. Samuel Beckett
our-generation people generations
Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock. Bill Ayers
our-generation generations kind
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. William Shakespeare
boredom reason
It's boredom. No other reason than that. Brad Pitt
boredom risk ifs
If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom. Clint Eastwood
boredom painting habit
Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring. Rene Magritte
boredom routine life-is
To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine. Timothy Leary
boredom wells ifs
If I were well behaved, I'd die of boredom. Tallulah Bankhead
boredom pleasure situation
Idleness allows you to turn a situation from boredom to pleasure. Tom Hodgkinson
boredom disease
Boredom is a disease, too. Tommy Chong
boredom despair emptiness
Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. Susanna Kaysen
boredom wonder break
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. Susan Howatch