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Kali is the goddess of destruction, the Clawed Hands, the Blood Drinker... And that's one side of her, as it is for any god. If you knew her for thousands of years you'd know she could be all colors. The sky is black at night, but if your eyes were good enough, they could see the different lights of a million stars. Death is part of her because death is part of life.
Martin Cruz Smith
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Someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God.
Jan Burke
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No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
Scott Spencer (writer)
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Daemon had written: "What do you do when she asks a question no man would give a child an answer to?" Saetan had replied: "Hope you're obliging enough to answer it for me. However, if you're backed into a corner, refer her to me. I've become accustomed to being shocked.
Anne Bishop
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We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
James Oppenheim
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The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
Nelson Algren
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I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband.
Dan Greenburg
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Oh, I do like it when young men flatter me. Of course it's all flummery but a harmless enough pleasure — less expensive than cards and far better for the complexion than Madeira.
Kate Ross
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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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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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There is nothing more seductive — and dangerous — than being listened to.
Donald Antrim
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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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Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.
Jennifer Crusie
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Yet every hair on the body is numbered. And in truth, every day is the beautiful day, the last day.
A. A. Attanasio
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They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That's my motto.
Joe R. Lansdale
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I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.
John Swartzwelder
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She writhed between him and the door and he moved his mouth to her ear, whispering hoarsely, "Abbie, I'm going to take you to that bed and make love to you like you never imagined you'd be made love to again.
LaVyrle Spencer
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How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.
Nelson DeMille
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The dead are celebrated. The dead are loved. They give something to the living. Once you put something into the ground, Doctor, you always know where to find it.
Téa Obreht
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Is this just what you do? You start to get involved, get scared when the emotions are too much, and then dream up any excuse you can to run? Or to invite the other person to dump you?
Sherryl Woods
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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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Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.
David Anthony Durham
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Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.
Allan Gurganus
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With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life.
Marge Piercy
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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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