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The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the… — David Foster Wallace
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting. — Ann Brashares
First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third,… — Jeff Lindsay
In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the… — Philip K. Dick
The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your… — Che Guevara
I am, indeed, an absolute materialist so far as actual belief goes; with not a shred of credence in any form of supernaturalism—religion, spiritualism, transcendentalism,… — H P Lovecraft
Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard. — Maureen Johnson
Max, you're acting like a child, the Voice said. You're above rebelling against your fate just to rebel. You've got a date with destiny. Don't… — James Patterson
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. — Frank Herbert
You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual… — Haruki Murakami
That's because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear - the exact sort of lines and… — H P Lovecraft
...the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it. — Niccolo Machiavelli
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it… — Ernest Hemingway
The prescription of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans: it is a prescription of how… — Peter Singer
Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up… — Terry Pratchett
Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's… — Jonathan Maberry
I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then… — Saint Augustine
It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did… — Meg Cabot
I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of… — Joe Dunthorne
...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person. — Erin Morgenstern
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed… — Ernest Hemingway
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these… — Frank Herbert
She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his… — Leo Tolstoy
In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually… — Haruki Murakami
And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I… — Aldous Huxley

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