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While I liked hamsters, too, the Habitrail cage was expensive. Even I could see that the interconnecting boxes, tubes, and spheres could easily bankrupt a… — Augusten Burroughs
O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
When you clean up a city, you destroy it. — Charles Bukowski
I really would like to stop working foreverâ€“never work again, never do anything like the kind of work Iâ€™m doing nowâ€“and do nothing but write… — Allen Ginsberg
Sergeant Colon of the Ankh-Morpork City Guard was on duty. He was guarding the Brass Bridge, the main link between Ankh and Morpork. From theft.… — Terry Pratchett
Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me… — Sherwood Smith
To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… — Sarah Orne Jewett
A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance,… — Ronald Reagan
Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face.… — William Goldman
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the… — Charles Bukowski
A city with all the personality of a paper cup. (On Los Angeles) — Raymond Chandler
The war is in the mountains,â€ he said. â€œFor as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece… — Ayn Rand
This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open unto the… — William Wordsworth
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
â€¦Even the idea of a city never entered his mind. It was as if he had walked under the millimeter of haze just above the… — Michael Ondaatje
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name,… — Ayn Rand
It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of… — Pythagoras

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