Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while.… — Martine Leavitt Copy Share Image
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Oh, nice one, honey. Yes. Clever. That's becoming quite a familiar quotation in its own right, isn't it? Maybe I should just… — John Bartlett Copy Share Image
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This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
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This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
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The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right?… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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