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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against…
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Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which…
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While still sixteen I am put in charge of a class of forty children who are two, three or four years younger…
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The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle…
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Now, I can smile at the stock quality of these friends, these uniforms. these looking-glasses, these sharers. Each is a character lifted…
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Next, suddenly, lightning suddenly, while I am still a child, a branch is lopped from my being, and a portion of my…
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The Australian form of self-respect, however rough-and-ready, heart-of-gold, come-and-take-pot-luck-with-us, and matily extrovert it is, essentially, genteel, ingrowing, self-pitying, vanilla-ice-cream hearted, its central…
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This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that…
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The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are…
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I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me a two-coloured…
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How ruthless and vile and hard and right the young are.
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I cannot consider fighting in competitive Manly Fun any more than I can consider pitting my running, swimming or climbing body against…
— Hal Porter
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To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one's body against oneself.
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I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw…
— Regina Brett
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Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb…
— Sara Gruen
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He kissed me for a long moment, holding my shoulders, perhaps to keep me from pressing my whole body against his. Then…
— Laura Whitcomb
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Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter. "What?" "You're naked." "I'm…
— Darynda Jones
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His hand touches my waist, steadies me. The touch sends a shock through my body, and all my insides burn like his…
— Veronica Roth
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For the first few months, I was a comically inept parent. The first night home from the hospital, I held her bare…
— Nick Flynn
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I missy you like crazy, but I can't bring myself to tell you. I loved you once and when u moved on…
— Nikki
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