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463 quotes by 378 authors

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin. — Jonah Goldberg
No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role… — Haruki Murakami
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal… — Neil Gaiman
It was hard to remember in the heavy and sensual clarity of these mornings; I forgot whom I hated and who hated me. I wanted… — John Knowles
An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in… — W.N.P. Barbellion
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information… — Gail Carriger
The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the… — Jeaniene Frost
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its… — Haruki Murakami
The most compelling insight of that day was that this awesome recall had been brought about by a fraction of a gram of a white… — Alexander Shulgin
Listen upâ€”thereâ€™s no war that will end all wars,â€™ Crow tells me. â€˜War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded… — Haruki Murakami
Niches set back in the walls contained polished marble statues of entwined bodies. Will looked away from them hastily, and then back. It wasn't as… — Cassandra Clare
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd… — Yann Martel
We used to laugh at our small selves, saying that I was a bad girl trying to be good and that he was a good… — Patti Smith
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Kate seemed to have doubled in size. She had drawn back her broad shoulders and set her jaw, and something in the stance called to… — Trenton Lee Stewart
But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, into strange and dark… — Lauren Oliver
Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
All the buddhas of all the ages have been telling you a very simple fact: Be â€” donÂ´t try to become. Within these two words,… — Rajneesh
Trapped in silence, Marco traces apologies and adorations across Celia's body with his tongue. Mutely expressing all the things he cannot speak aloud. He finds… — Erin Morgenstern

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