He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.' Tithonus closed his eyes briefly. 'Good grief!' He opened them again. 'I was half hoping… — Herbie Brennan Copy Share Image
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So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
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A Montana statue holds that a river has a right to overwhelm its banks and inundate its floodplain. Well, that's interesting, because… — Daniel Kemmis Copy Share Image
He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“Well, we were always going to fail that one,” said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
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I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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A couple of years ago, I went to see a production of Wicked in San Francisco with a friend of mine, one… — Brent Spiner Copy Share Image
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How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling… — Margaret Caroline Anderson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that it was well said by Madama Serenissima, and insisted on by your reverence, that the Holy Scripture… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
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Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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