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Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.


Katharine Hepburn


#create #exhaust #fascinating #hard #impression

The world loves talent but pays off on character.


John W. Gardner


#talent #love

It is a far far better thing that I do, than I have ever done. It is a far far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." protagonist, facing the guillotine, sacrificing himself for the sake of his love


Charles Dickens


#cities #dickens #rest #revolution #tale

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.


Oscar Wilde


#fairy-tale #magical-realism #realism #art

The idea of love horrified me, and I knew I couldn't have it, so I didn't want it.


H. A. Lamb


#fantasy-fiction #love

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.


Alethea Kontis


#enchanted #fairy-tales #love #love

We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.


Jodi Picoult


#men

Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant smile of a woman who knows what feeble creatures men can be. You couldn't learn to smile like that. It was something a woman either knew the minute she was born, or never knew at all. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")


Cornell Woolrich


#men

We are given talent but we choose to have character.


Wayde Goodall


#talent #men

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.


Stephen King


#money #payment #professional #publishing #talent






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