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“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.”
― Paradise Lost
Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate
With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms:
Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.”
― Paradise Lost
“I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.”
― Postcards from the Edge
― Postcards from the Edge
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
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“Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
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