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The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a… — Chuck Palahniuk
I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they… — Tom Robbins
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case. — Chuck Klosterman
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged… — Paulo Coelho
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of… — A. S. Byatt
It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many… — Sydney J. Harris
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep.… — Brandon Sanderson
We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can… — Margaret Atwood
I'm not threatening you. I'm just informing you of police procedure. If you continue to obstruct me, I remove the obstruction, in this case you,… — Eoin Colfer
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel… — Brandon Sanderson
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could.… — Eoin Colfer
But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with… — Georges Bataille
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm… — J D Salinger
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of… — Charles Dickens
The reality of the Life Review is becoming part of our every day understanding. We know that after death, we have to look at our… — James Redfield
Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health. However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case… — Salvador Dali
I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in… — Seamus Heaney
The legs, for example, of that chair--how miraculous their tubularity, how supernatural their polished smoothness! I spent several minutes--or was it several centuries?--not merely gazing… — Aldous Huxley
Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
In my case, I think my exile saved my life, for it inexorably confirmed something which Americans appear to have great difficulty accepting. Which is,… — James A. Baldwin

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