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The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.
Hugh Walpole
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Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Robert Graves
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What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is BAD.
Laura Antoniou
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The idea is to perceive your invention as a reality that can be understood as a dream. The idea is to turn flesh and blood into literary characters and literary characters into flesh and blood.
Philip Roth
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Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
Henry Williamson
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We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
Daniel Handler
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We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
Frank Herbert
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Love is an obsolete emotion, ranking in usefulness somewhere between earwigs and toe mold.
Patricia A. McKillip
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Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from. If there has never been conflict, imagination never develops. Wits arise in answer to danger, to pain, to tragedy. No one ever got smarter eating easy apples.
Sheri S. Tepper
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I tell you, guilt dwells nowhere but in the eyes of the accuser. This men know even as they deny it, which is why they so often make murder their absolution. The truth of crime lies not with the victim but with the witness.
R. Scott Bakker
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Art is the most terrifying of human inventions — it preserves the right to undermine all categories.
Richard Powers
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You are a terror, aren't you? Leave this yard alone. I know just where everything is in it, and I won't be able to find the things I need for my transport spells if you tidy them up.'So there was probably a bundle of souls or a box of chewed hearts somewhere out here, Sophie thought. She felt really thwarted. 'Tidying up is what I'm here for!' she shouted at Howl. 'Then you must think of a new meaning for your life,' Howl said.
Diana Wynne Jones
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The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the back seat of a Dodge Dart.
Lisa Alther
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Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
Erich Maria Remarque
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Love is so powerful, it's like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.
Bessie Head
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No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another
Robert Barr
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I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me--a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.
E. M. Forster
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For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
Henry Fielding
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The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.
Mercedes Lackey
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you should never marry a lot younger than you... never.... it never works... there is not a single case of its working..
Patrick Modiano
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For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.
Selma Lagerlöf
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The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.
Rick Cook
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We like what we like, we want what we want, and nobody needs to give us permission to feel that way!
Scott Lynch
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Why do you think nothing concrete and lasting happened out of the 60s? Lots of people have been saying this lately, and I can't help feeling that the changes were so profound and total that no one remembers that there were changes! The 50s, my friends, happened in a different country than this one. We did not get everything we wanted, no. The world is not perfect now, and is that why some of us think we accomplished nothing? … Try to remember what life was like in the 50s. That's all I can say to that. It's the power structures that are trying to pretend that the change wasn't lasting, so they can convince people that protests and the like are futile now.
But they lie. I'm glad to see that many young people aren't buying it.
Katharine Kerr
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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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