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The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.
Tod Wodicka
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To know a little less and to understand a little more: that, it seems to me, is our greatest need.
James Ramsey Ullman
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A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.
Jenny Offill
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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.
Molly Harper
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The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.
Chris Bachelder
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Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
Katharine Brush
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Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.
Barbara G. Walker
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Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.
Henry Roth
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It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.
Hannah Webster Foster
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The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.
Sarah McCoy
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Bad feeling is a country no woman want to visit. So they take good feeling any which way it come. Sometime that good feeling come by taking on a different kind of bad feeling.
Marlon James (novelist)
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There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.
Thomas Adcock
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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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Depression is like a headache or true love or any of those indefinable concepts. If you've never been there, you don't know what it's like until you're too far in to stop the process.
Tim Sandlin
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Don't ever get old. With each year that passes, the old Viking idea of jumping off a cliff to one's death looks better and better. The only thing to hope for is that you get so senile that you think you're twenty years old again. That would be fun to relive.
Camilla Läckberg
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For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
Anne Edwards
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Sleep for me is great and the deeper the better, for there I often dream and dreams awaken me to the crisis of living.
Leon Forrest
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A heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.
Caroline Pafford Miller
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"Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had enjoyed a better life. In spite of the dreadful pain, his face radiated happiness," said Mother, nodding her head comfortably. "Happiness drives out pain, as fire burns out fire."
Mary Lavin
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Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!
Mary Borden
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There is no such thing as art for art's sake. All art is propaganda, although there is much propaganda that is not art.
John Oliver Killens
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Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.
I. A. R. Wylie
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Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.
Megan Crane
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The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.
Randy Wayne White
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The most shocking act, closely examined, is just a louder version of some habitual gesture.
Susan Choi
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