“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
On the success of his Subway diet, as quoted in "Subway pitchman Jared lost pounds, then anonymity" by Mitch Stacy in Associated Press report (16 November 2003)
“I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
N. K. Jemisin book The Broken Kingdoms
Source: The Broken Kingdoms (2011), Chapter 21 “Still Life” (oil on canvas) (p. 378)
“I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?”
Janet Evanovich book One for the Money
Source: One for the Money
Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons.”
Donald Rumsfeld (1932) U.S. Secretary of Defense
At a hearing of the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on defense (14 May 2003)
2000s
“I tried to find out what had happened to you. I Googled you in quotes- got no results.”
Pete Yorn (1974) American musician
Song lyrics
Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter XVII, p. 98
“Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes