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It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious…
— Rachel Vincent
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You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be,…
— Joel Osteen
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I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
— Leon Trotsky
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What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!
— Gustave Flaubert
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Just like becoming an expert in wine–you learn by drinking it, the best you can afford–you learn about great food by finding the best there…
— Julia Child
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believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup.…
— Douglas Coupland
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I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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One of the strongest of contemporary conventions is that of comparing to Thoreau every writer who has been as far out of the house as…
— Wendell Berry
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I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies…
— Ray Bradbury
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But time, as well as healing all wounds, taught me something strange too: that it's possible to love more than one person in a lifetime.…
— Paulo Coelho
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We can't, and we should not, compare sufferings. We come together as a family of God, hand in hand. And then together coming and standing…
— Nick Vujicic
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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man,…
— Anne Bradstreet
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Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business…
— Brenda Ueland
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The mind self-edits. The mind airbrushes. It's a different thing to be inside a body than outside. From outside, you can look, inspect, compare. From…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our…
— Scott Westerfeld
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I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind…
— Dennis Lehane
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Stop comparing or boast at your victories. He was referring to enormous vitality and strength of God of Jesus seeking union with us. The living…
— Brennan Manning
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Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that…
— Jane Austen
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