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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Octavia Butler
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And in the end, I think, we're all just trying to survive, aren't we?
Janice Y. K. Lee
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But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.
Evelyn Waugh
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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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Far, far away, there is a beautiful Country which no human eye has ever seen in waking hours. Under the Sunset it lies, where the distant horizon bounds the day, and where the clouds, splendid with light and colour, give a promise of the glory and beauty which encompass it. Sometimes it is given to us to see it in dreams.
Bram Stoker
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In Islam, all living things have souls. We are made pure by the fire of the lord compassion.
John Speed (novelist)
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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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There comes a moment in your life when, no matter what you do, you bore everybody else. There is only one way to get back the lost prestige. Dying.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
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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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If you have ever successfully resisted getting angry, then you know what it is like to resist a demon.
Alexei Maxim Russell
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Here every bird and fish knew its course. Every tree had its own place upon this earth. Only man had lost his way.
Margaret Craven (writer)
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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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Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.
James Clavell
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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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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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Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.
Erich Maria Remarque
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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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For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
Henry Fielding
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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 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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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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The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.
Chris Bachelder
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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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You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.
Nick Hornby
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The Fourth Dimension is just a hypothetical math concept. Or else it's time, or something. Just a lot of sci-fi crud.
William Sleator
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