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The moment in The Bell Jar when Esther Greenwood realizes after thirty days in the same black turtleneck that she never wants to wash her… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting… — Douglas Adams
Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses.… — Denis Johnson
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
The hand descended. Nearer and nearer it came. It touched the ends of his upstanding hair. He shrank down under it. It followed down after… — Jack London
Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by… — A. Lee Martinez
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are all descended from monsters. — Tess Gerritsen
Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be… — David Wojnarowicz
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process… — Edward R. Murrow
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he… — Douglas Adams
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the… — Abraham Verghese
Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake. — Jacqueline Carey
As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen. — Arthur Rimbaud
I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and… — Sylvia Plath
Maybe it's true that we are all descended from the restless, the nervous, the criminals, the arguers and brawlers, but also the brave and independent… — John Steinbeck
I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from… — Kurt Vonnegut
This can’t be happening. It’s just not possible. (Cassandra) Oh, well, let’s not have reality intrude now, shall we? I mean, hey, you’re a mythological… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
As history shows us, when colonization is voluntary, people will self-select better than any testing system. It’s like those foolish attempts to control immigration to… — Orson Scott Card
My dream went all the way back to the beginning. The rain rose into the clouds, and the animals descended the ramp. — Jonathan Safran Foer
When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that would hold him to his mortal life. Otherwise… — Rick Riordan
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical… — Jon Stewart

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