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What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it,… — Daniel Handler
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes… — Isabel Allende
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is… — H.G. Wells
People can be teachers and idiots; they can be philosophers and idiots; they can be politicians and idiots... in fact I think they have to… — Iain Banks
We should remember that the Declaration of Independence is not merely a historical document. It is an explicit recognition that our rights derive not from… — Mark Levin
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that… — Jack Kerouac
Emotions werenâ€™t created to just lie around. You should experience things to the full. Iâ€™ve got a sense of the clock ticking. We have to… — Bjork
While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people… — Kate Morton
There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the… — Neal A. Maxwell
Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling… — Esmeralda Santiago
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at… — Daniel Handler
Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood… — Clive Barker
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. — Harper Lee
That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those… — Lauren Oliver
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee
I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else — Melissa Marr
He's one of those smart, drifty young people who, after certain deliberations, decides he wants to do Something in the Arts but won't, possibly can't,… — Michael Cunningham
There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses,… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just… — Jodi Picoult

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