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Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to… — Frantz Fanon
As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging… — David Eddings
Adam wasn't certain what came first with Blue--her treating the boys as friends, or them all becoming friends. It seemed to Adam that this circular… — Maggie Stiefvater
Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say… — Anais Nin
For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not… — Lauren Oliver
Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping… — Tom Stoppard
And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie,… — Paulo Coelho
There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may… — Washington Irving
There was a certain history to this. While heavily pregnant with Amelia, she had asked him if she was radiant or if she just looked… — Julia Quinn
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings,… — John Irving
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to… — Ramana Maharshi
You gonna put on your big-girl panties and fight with the boys, now?” He looked over his shoulder as if he expected me to blush… — Faith Hunter
Any leader has to have a certain amount of steel in them, so I am not that put out being called the Iron Lady. — Margaret Thatcher
Beyond the element of giving, the active characteristic of love becomes evident in the fact that it always implies certain basic elements, common to all… — Erich Fromm
We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp… — Katy Evans
Is it really so terrible being around us?" I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my… — Richelle Mead
And I'm certain one day, you'll make it back home. With love, Your friend and Cêpan, -H — Pittacus Lore
There's no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish… — Cheryl Strayed
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front… — Pablo Neruda
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be… — Alberto Moravia
Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or… — Jess Walter
I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance,… — Daniel Handler
Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially… — Anne Lamott
She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to… — Michael Ondaatje
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. — Barbara Kingsolver

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