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Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her… — Robert Penn Warren
People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy.… — Michel Houellebecq
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an… — Haruki Murakami
I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up… — Haruki Murakami
In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely… — Daniel Handler
He made a weak attempt to look innocent, but I knew better. "Should I guess how many concealed weapons you have or should I strip… — Maria V. Snyder
I held her, he wanted to say, and if I knew for certain that all it would take to hold her again would be to… — Dennis Lehane
It is a long-cherished tradition among a certain type of military thinker that huge casualties are the main thing. If they are on the other… — Terry Pratchett
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer
In the shaded portions where the two spheres of different lives meet, certain fundamentals- moods, loves, fears, angers- can't be hidden. That's the contract. — Jeffery Deaver
I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do… — Clarice Lispector
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in… — John Patrick Shanley
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity. — Isobelle Carmody
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases, I perceive so… — Rene Descartes
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are… — Victor Hugo
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He… — Epictetus
Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their… — Jodi Picoult
But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were… — Elizabeth Strout
It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were… — W G Sebald
In a way, whoever you know in a certain place defines that place for you. — Gabrielle Zevin
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our… — Gaston Bachelard
It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one… — Robert Hughes
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea; Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never… — Emily Dickinson
Put any woman in an area run mostly by men and rumors will fly. Unless you make it very clear that you are off limits,… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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