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There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,… — Simone Weil
Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing. — Philip Pullman
Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest… — Dean Koontz
...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something… — Betty Smith
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a… — George Orwell
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of… — H P Lovecraft
I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue… — Iris Murdoch
I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it… — Tana French
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way… — Chuck Klosterman
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath. — Khaled Hosseini
As far as I can tell, dumping soda on people is the equivalent of â€˜Hi, itâ€™s nice to meet youâ€™ in this part of the… — Nicholas Sparks
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and… — Frank Zappa
What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only? — Rachel Vincent
More girls were killed in the last 50 years, precisely because they were girls, than men killed in all the wars in the 20th century.… — Nicholas D. Kristof
I wouldn't say that my emotions are extreme. I'd say they are committed. My moods are the equivalent of Madonna's dancing: inappropriate but all-out. If… — Emma Forrest
Perfect date material, she thought. A vampire with the social equivalent of road rage. ---Beth about Wrath — J R Ward
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms. — Jorge Luis Borges
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products. — Chuck Palahniuk

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