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We turn to literature to remedy the loss, to impose some kind of meaningful order on the nonsequential.
Wendy Lesser
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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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Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.
Jennifer Crusie
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Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
Bayard Taylor
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The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.
Susan Cheever
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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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I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.
Sherwood Anderson
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The last I knew you were going to a party. just a few friends at the McEvoys' you told me. The science club, you told me. What happened? You got into a fight about the theory of relativity? Did creationists crash the party and start a rumble?
Tami Hoag
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When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.
Gene Stratton-Porter
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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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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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Is it not the worst pain to know there is a cure for your child's illness and then not be able to obtain it? Oh it must be the one of the worst types of pain in the world...
Nnedi Okorafor
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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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Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me.
John Knowles
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The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Carolyn Mackler
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Blue dusk, that brings the dewy hours, Brings thee, of graceless form in smooth, Dark stumbler at the roots of flowers, Flaccid, inert, uncouth.
Edgar Fawcett
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The aim is not to measure effort but to make it.
Jean Toomer
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
Naomi Novik
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If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE
Michelle Moran
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That indescribable expression peculiar to people who hope they have not been asleep, but know they have.
Helen Hunt Jackson
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The Magus must had eyes like a thief because he told Pol to stop and dismount to walk alongside me, one hand resting just above my knee ready to shake me if I fell asleep. He shook hard and resorted to pinching periodically.
Megan Whalen Turner
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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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You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.
Libba Bray
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It was too vast a problem to be just a personal thing. There should be some help, someone should tell them before it was too late. Someone should tell their side of the story, and maybe people would understand then, and wouldn't be so quick to judge a boy by the amount of hair oil he wore.
S. E. Hinton
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