#seemed

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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.


Elie Wiesel


#between #haunted #horror #human #i

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.


Timothy Zahn


#change #false #false sense #fickle #into

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.


Jhumoa Lahiri


#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.


Jhumpa Lahiri


#am #avoided #dare #fiction #found

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.


Pierre Loti


#agonizing #almost #called #diabolical #eight

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.


Pierre Loti


#before #belonged #brother #considerably #different

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.


Wentworth Miller


#college #friends #going #got #i

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.


Marion Milner


#endless #fear #obstacles #root #seemed

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.


Paul Nurse


#enough #examination #exams #finding #follow

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.


Catherine O'Hara


#did #few #had #i #like