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The older people get, the more like themselves they become, if you see what I mean.
Barbara D'Amato
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Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.
Tanith Lee
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We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
Daniel Handler
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The point is I don't love your wife. I love your daughter, sir.
Charles Webb (author)
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So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.
Thomas M. Disch
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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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Love is so powerful, it's like unseen flowers under your feet as you walk.
Bessie Head
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If once you have slept on an island
You'll never be quite the same.
Rachel Field
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Wizards die the same as other men, once you cut their heads off.
George R. R. Martin
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The highest law for us is to live for one another.
Virginia Hamilton
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Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.
Henry Williamson
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To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Lawrence Durrell
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How dare you, unless you can hold up your own life as a model of rectitude, achievement, and halcyon happiness, open your mouth about the stubborn secrets of living?
Celestine Sibley
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The whole of society in Washington is to some degree political. It is like no other capital city known to me, in that political thinking, the whole business, technical and personal, of politics, is not diluted by an equal interest in art, industry, amusement, anything you like. I don't meant that these are non-existent in Washington -- only that they are subdued to the ruling passion.
Storm Jameson
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People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.
Andrzej Sapkowski
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They sat and combed their beautiful hair,
Their long, bright tresses, one by one,
As they laughed and talked in the chamber there,
After the revel was done.
Nora Perry
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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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Oppression is never right, even when it is elegant.
Frank Yerby
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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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Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames.
Cathleen Schine
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If you want to know how old a woman is... ask her sister-in-law.
E. W. Howe
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The politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.
Maurice Barrès
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That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special — these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.
Gish Jen
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There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.
A. E. Hotchner
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I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults.... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.
Mary Jo Putney
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