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Sometimes you read a passage by a great writer, and you know what he says and how he says it will always be, for you,… — Vincent Price
One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one… — Alexandra Adornetto
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to… — Maya Angelou
What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I have studiously tried to avoid ever using the word 'madness' to describe my condition. Now and again, the word slips out, but I hate… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or… — Elizabeth Chandler
Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have… — Adam Phillips
I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore. — Bram Stoker
The music defied classification. If I had been writing a review of the show, I would have labeled it progressive, guitar-driven rock ’n’ roll. But… — Tiffanie DeBartolo
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's… — Paulo Coelho
I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of… — Lauren Willig
Listen- all that she was then, all that she is now, those gestures, everything I remember but won't or can't articulate anymore, the perfect words… — Elliot Perlman
One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is… — Pseudonymous Bosch
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. — Stephen Chbosky
don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into… — Tom Wolfe
You can have Jesus in your spirit and an outrgeous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called it's called religion.… — Joyce Meyer
...In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one… — Desmond Morris
The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and… — Ann Brashares
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,… — Honore de Balzac
Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that… — Francis Chan
In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For… — Patrick Rothfuss
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him. — Algernon Blackwood
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had… — Ernest Hemingway
Rose,” he said, forcibly trying to keep a serious tone, “I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the… — Richelle Mead

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