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This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You...more

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It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

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At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

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To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.

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Jump, if you want to, ‘cause I’ll catch you, girl. I’ll catch you “fore you fall. Go as far inside as you need to, I’ll hold your ankles. Make sure yo...more

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Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

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In this here place, we flesh; flesh that weeps, laughs; flesh that dances on bare feet in grass. Love it. Love it hard. Yonder they do not love your f...more

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Although each of her nurses was markedly different from the others in looks, dress, manner of speech, food and medical preferences, their similarities...more

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You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin' life!

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These and other inanimate things she saw and experienced. They were real to her. She knew them. They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capa...more

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Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thou...more