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childhood wish fairy-tale
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. C. S. Lewis
childhood malls
There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood. Dave Foley
childhood want bottles
If you answered, ''Spin the Bottle,'' then I frankly do not want to know any more about your childhood. Dave Barry
childhood looks happy-childhood
I look back to a happy childhood. Catherine Helen Spence
childhood fickle lovers
Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
childhood young
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand. Jane Wagner
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood feelings would-be
Most of my childhood revolved around wondering when we would be blown up by the Russians. I couldn't stand the news, I knew that if the missile were launched, mortality would arrive in half an hour, so I spent a lot of my childhood feeling that I was 30 minutes from being dead. Jane Smiley
romance youth imagine
Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. Booth Tarkington
romance nostalgia certain
There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left. David Guterson
romance hamburgers vanilla
I'll take you to Mickey D's," said Sean. "I'll buy you a hamburger." Annie was not thrilled. Sean's offer did not compare to offers made in other centuries. "And fries," Sean said. "And a vanilla milkshake." Annie remained unthrilled. "Okay, okay. You can have a Big Mac." Romance in my century, she thought, is pitiful. Caroline B. Cooney
romance youth natural
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning. Jane Austen
romance fascination categories
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination. Jane Smiley
romance literature should
Life should imitate romance literature far more often. Charlaine Harris
romance lovers eric-northman
You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful. Charlaine Harris
romance strive stifling
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive. Billy Strayhorn
romance faces romanticism
I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance. Bill Nighy
despair calm
Despair has its own calms. Bram Stoker
despair phrases dames
I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad. Jamie Lee Curtis
despair surrender never-surrender
Never despair. Never surrender. Alan Moore
despair load
It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. Chinua Achebe
despair amusement boring
Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement. Charles Baudelaire
despair boring amusing
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire
despair hope leads path stand today total utter wisdom
We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice. Woody Allen
despair doe circumstances
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. Edmund Burke
despair duty
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act. Edmund Burke