Elizabeth Bear Quotes
The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.
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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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I think I'm a narcoleptic. I could sleep on a railway track with a train running over me, in-between the rails.
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A kiss is a secret told to the mouth instead of the ear; kisses are the messengers of love and tenderness.
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.
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I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.
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I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.
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I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.
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'The Big Sleep' is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood's underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!
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'Alec is beautiful,' said Jill, bending down to kiss him.'Like a mushroom cloud!' scoffed Balkister.
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself.
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
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As a good wine must be kept in a good cask, so a wholesome body is the proper foundation for a well-appointed inner ground.
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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
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As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.
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You see these terrorists that are flying planes into buildings, right? You see our cities getting shot up in California. You see Paris getting shot up. And then somebody complains when a terrorist gets waterboarded, which quite frankly is no different than what happens on college campuses and frat houses every day.
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People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.
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The kiss tasted of bitter sleep, the sourness of the wine. Something brought by each of them.
