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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has… — George Washington
I wake up like this, this sense that I've somehow been transported to an alternate universe where my life took a left instead of a… — Jonathan Tropper
The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection… — John Ralston Saul
The only funny part about Colonial Dunsboro is maybe it's too authentic, but for all the wrong reasons. This whole crowd of losers and nutcases… — Chuck Palahniuk
The surface of the pond was green with fallen leaves. "How could you have been happy there? I know what you thought, but Valentine was… — Cassandra Clare
She was my mother. I couldn't threaten to slap, stab, beat or even name call her. I tried to think of something to scare her… — Jeaniene Frost
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
Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the… — Kate Morton
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out… — Chuck Palahniuk
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words… — Dr. Seuss
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,… — Chaim Potok
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one… — Hendrik Hertzberg
So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky. — Thomas Hardy
How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes… — Dan Chaon
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile… — Annie Dillard
Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions. — Neal Shusterman
I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his… — Ilona Andrews
a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has… — Hope Edelman
Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate… — Ann Brashares
She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on… — Charles Frazier
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy. — Edgar Allan Poe
Honestly, Jared, one thing at a time. Why are you in a well with me? This is a really bad rescue!" [...] "I called the… — Sarah Rees Brennan
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into… — Anne Sexton
True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away. Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably. Happiness comes from the Self and can be… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk. — Maureen Dowd

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