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I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
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“The Baudelaires' journey up the Vertical Flame Diversion was so dark and treacherous that it is not enough to write “The Baudelaires'… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut of something's head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He'd never… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“It commenced raining one day and did not stop for two months. We went through ever different kind of rain they is,… — Winston Groom Copy Share Image
“Do you think the Goblin King really did it?" asked Cordelia hesitantly. All the sheep knew she was talking about George's death.… — Leonie Swann Copy Share Image
“Ye are a scoundrel, a black-hearted robber and a rogue,' Stubble said cheerily to the grumbling captain. It was his usual way… — Ian Livingstone Copy Share Image
“Each day of the week, Kalist indulges himself in a different, secret ritual. On Mondays, he wears cologne. On Tuesdays, he eats… — Carla H Krueger Copy Share Image
“Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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“I’d spend hours in HMVs, Virgin Megastores and second-hand record shops staffed by greasy-haired 40-year-olds dressed as 20-year-olds, listening to contemporary music… — Alan Partridge Copy Share Image
When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So,… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
The first step toward the management of disease was replacement of demon theories and humours theories by the germ theory. That very… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“Edward shifted from one foot to the other, then headed to one of the younger knights from Carrick, leading his horse and… — Robyn Young Copy Share Image
“Nature" doesn't really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen… — Pat Connid Copy Share Image
“On a Tuesday they were we, and by Friday they were dead and they buried them in the courtyard side by side,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“At the zoo, I stood in front of the primate cage listening to a woman marvel at how “presidential” the four-hundred-pound gorilla… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
This false distance is present everywhere: in spy films, in Godard, in modern advertising, which uses it continually as a cultural allusion.… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“Pastor Daniel, meanwhile, is sipping water on the balcony of a former sailing clubhouse, I ask if he can show me which… — John Safran Copy Share Image
“The bus I am riding on must be on its way to a garbage convention. Never before has a more rancid assemblage… — Emily Austin Copy Share Image
“Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The Little Prince : What are you doing there? The Tippler : I am drinking. The Little Prince : Why are you… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Ty didn't think Middleton was a great girl. He thought Middleton was a pain in the ass. Waltzing around with her shiny… — Eve Dangerfield Copy Share Image
“Well, look who's on my front porch," he said, speaking Empire with this odd hissing accent. "A murderer and a cross-dressing pirate."… — Cassandra Rose Clarke Copy Share Image
“When the waiter brought the cheese-board, there was a large carrot carved in the shape of a mermaid sitting between the Dolcelatte… — Michelle Lovric Copy Share Image
“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We offered her flowers and signalled to her with our penises, but she did not respond with joy.' 'The men with the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“There’s something very comforting about watching a Hugh Grant movie. You know no one’s head will be blown off in the first… — Ali McNamara Copy Share Image
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“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Oh be careful! There they go again!" said the old queen as his string broke spilling his balls over the floor… "Stop… — William Burroughs Copy Share Image
