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"That's why I have to be a fiction writer, because I can't remember what just happened or where I went last week or what movie I just watched with my husband. I'm better off just making things up."
"It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now."
"The last thing to collapse is the surface."
"The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live."
"Every day travels toward death; the last only arrives at it."
"God is always the last resource."
"Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled."
"Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become."
"One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word."
"I never understand how the lipstick business goes on because lipstick lasts forever."
"I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food."
"If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever."
"My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize."
"In high school, every last one of the passing schemes was designed for me."
"I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow."
"Oh, if I had only known then what I know now, I would have stopped it last year when I was still young."
"I'm much happier and more fulfilled than I thought I would ever be, especially when I was going through a lot of grief when I was younger. I hope it lasts."
"Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert."
"What's down below is in the past Like last night's crickets, far below."
"Will you seek afar off? You surely come back at last, In things best known to you, finding the best, or as good as the best, In folks nearest to you finding the sweetest, strongest, lovingest; Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place-not for another hour, but this hour."
