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3508 quotes by 2575 authors
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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take…
— Florence King
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So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by…
— John Knowles
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Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my…
— Po Bronson
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Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a…
— Annie Barrows
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Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different.…
— Emily Giffin
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Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. Like a chemical mixture, if one…
— Rollo May
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Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses…
— Neil Gaiman
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But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing…
— Emily Bronte
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With the Black Company series Glen Cook single-handedly changed the face of fantasy—something a lot of people didn’t notice and maybe still don’t. He brought…
— Steven Erikson
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When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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But that was the thing about zero. Its weakness. Even if zero had taken over the entire universe, the biggest fascist of all, one tiny…
— Janet Fitch
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All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In…
— William Saroyan
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The things that stress me out haven't changed. But I don't wanna lose anything. So I thought that at least I would change. I'm lucky...that…
— Ai Yazawa
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Grace was one of those types who never changed but only aged and had no apparent expectations or ambitions other than the wish that her…
— Candace Bushnell
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But for me there is neither Monday nor Sunday: there are days which pass in disorder, and then, sudden lightning like this one. Nothing has…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car…
— Jen Lancaster
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