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For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.… — George Orwell
Kayso, it turns out that driving an actual car is way harder than it is in 'Grand Theft Auto: Zombie Hooker Smackdown. — Christopher Moore
Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes. — Deb Caletti
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. — John Green
The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you… — Deb Caletti
These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low… — James A. Baldwin
when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the… — David Levithan
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his… — Milan Kundera
RJD was pretty much heavy metal personified, a tiny 5-foot-4-inch sorcerer with a mangy mane, demonic eyes and sly grin, all coupled to a simply… — Mark Morford
We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover… — Lev Grossman
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of… — Tennessee Williams
Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills. — J. Maarten Troost
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated… — Michel Foucault
See, Sway, that’s what you get for flunking your pilot’s test six times…which I’m pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use. — Samuel Butler
The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts… — Anton Szandor LaVey
To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery. — Aldous Huxley
He looked as though I'd just run over his pet puppy (though no actual puppies were harmed in the formation of that metaphor). — Ally Carter
When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted… — Suzanne Collins
You don't start at the top if you want to find the story. You start in the middle, because it's the people in the middle… — Malcolm Gladwell
This wasn't the person he'd thought he was, or would have chosen to be if he'd been free to choose, but there was something comforting… — Jonathan Franzen
I needed to sit down. I'd heard other people talk about having to sit down when shocked by an event or revelation and I had… — Maria V. Snyder
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point. — Raymond Chandler

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