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The living room is a monument to my impulsive spending habits. I've got more than two hundred DVDs, including cinematic greats such as Monkey Bone,… — Jen Lancaster
those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account. — Azar Nafisi
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And… — Mark Haddon
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much… — Gore Vidal
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing… — Herman Melville
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from… — Alexandre Dumas
Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go. — Agatha Christie
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,… — Michelle Obama
By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. — Dan Brown
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned… — Ian Mcewan
Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for… — Douglas Adams
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and… — Douglas Adams
But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account whatâ€™s going on in his heart and mind. — Aldous Huxley
Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus
Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems… — John Dewey
You don't serve God by saying: the Church is ineffective, I'll have none of it. Your pain at its lack of effectiveness is a sign… — Flannery O'Connor
Having been away from you offical duties," Arch said as the Miller's hand lowered to his side, "you might not have hearc, but I've developed… — Frank Beddor
It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account. — Michel de Montaigne
Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone… — Anthony Bourdain

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