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734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites? — Amy Tan
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only… — Walker Percy
The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to… — Mary Roach
Put him in there and chain him up," he ordered curtly. "Yes, that chain, you fool - do you see any other chain in that… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
The reason I know what we are to each other is because we fight freely and almost constantly, about even the smallest thing. In fact,… — Augusten Burroughs
In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes… — Tim O'Brien
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family… — Sherman Alexie
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what… — Diane Setterfield
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite… — Rob Sheffield
There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future… — Obert Skye
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the… — Theodore Roosevelt
I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the… — Carrie Fisher
Sir,’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them--I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying… — Patrick O'Brian
All the green in the planted world consists of these whole, rounded chloroplasts wending their ways in water. If you analyze a molecule of chlorophyll… — Annie Dillard
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of course, it’s the… — Haruki Murakami
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. — Ernest Hemingway
Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same way in which… — Anne Lamott
I want to tell Tobet about when i was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's… — Susane Colasanti
The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none… — Theodore Dreiser
The reason I want you to put a shirt on is, well, because, um..." "You've never seen a guy with his shirt off?" "Ha, ha.… — Simone Elkeles
Nothing optional -- from homosexuality to adultery -- is ever made punishable unless those who do the prohibiting (and exact the fierce punishment) have a… — Christopher Hitchens
Confession can be good for the soul, but it can exact a heavy toll on friendships. — C.D. Payne

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