Liz Jensen quotes
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“Everyone said that one day I was going to have a big accident, an accident to end all accidents. One day you might look up and see a kid falling from the sky. That would be me.”
-- Liz JensenSource : Liz Jensen (2010). “The Ninth Life of Louis Drax”, p.6, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks”
-- Liz JensenSource : Liz Jensen (1998). “Ark Baby”, Overlook Books
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“Hangovers are a vivid form of vengeance. Last night my apartment became the venue for a small, introverted chardonnay festival. A melancholy choir of Bulgarians provided the entertainment, via a set of headphones that ended up irredeemably tangled beneath the bed. Part of me just watched. The other part was in charge.”
-- Liz JensenSource : Liz Jensen (2009). “The Rapture”, p.101, A&C Black
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“Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.”
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.”
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Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.
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“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc
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