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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp
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Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature — and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
Lynne Cheney
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If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.
Mickey Spillane
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.
Stephen Vincent Benét
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I love you with all the plenitude of my soul. My love for you is sincere as it is profound and nothing in the world can change it.
John Monk Saunders
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Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.
Jennifer Crusie
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You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
Libba Bray
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The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.
Charles Dudley Warner
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The aim is not to measure effort but to make it.
Jean Toomer
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If the world is saved, it will not be by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. Why not new minds with new programs? Because where you find people working on programs, you don't find new minds, you find old ones. Programs and old minds go together like buggy whips and buggies.
Daniel Quinn
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He put the blinker on, pulled out onto the avenue. "Well, that was nice," she said, sitting back. They had fun together these days, they really did. It was as if marriage had been a long, complicatd meal, and now there was this lovely dessert.
Elizabeth Strout
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A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.
Arthur Golden
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Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.
Lisa Kleypas
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"Jerks," I muttered. Then I brightened. "Oh, hey. Doughnuts."
Richelle Mead
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'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.
Orson Scott Card
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He reached across and fingered the pendant; I felt it move against my skin. "Willow, look," He said. "We haven't talked much about what might happen, but...you know that I always want to be with you, right? I mean—no matter what." And I had known it; I felt it every time he held me—but even so, actually hearing the words made my heart catch. "I want that, too," I said. "Always, Alex.
L.A. Weatherly
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If you want to know how old a woman is... ask her sister-in-law.
E. W. Howe
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Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
Gene Wolfe
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Life is as the sea, art a ship in which man conquers life's crushing formlessness, reducing it to a course, a series of swells, tides and wind currents inscribed on a chart.
Ralph Ellison
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If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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The snow came up to the top of Georgie's calves - she had to lift her feet high to make any progress. Her ears and eyelids were freezing... God, she'd never even been able to imagine this much cold before. How could people live someplace that so obviously didn't want them?
Rainbow Rowell
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Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.
Phillip Lopate
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor
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I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to, the rest of us; that they are more intelligent. Not until Vietnam did I finally realize that some of the most important decision of all time can be made by men knowing really no more than, and who are not more intelligent than, most of the rest of us. That it was even possible that my own opinions and judgment could be as good as and maybe better than a politician's who made a decision of profound consequence.
Jack Finney
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