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734 Exact quotes by 612 unique authors

I feel the same way about all my friends. To me, the exact relationship between me and someone else doesn't matter much.But people want to… — Ai Yazawa
Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau… — James Sallis
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the… — John Green
I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates". — Steven Wright
He stepped toward her, and her heart just ached from it. His face was so handsome, and so dear, and so perfectly wonderfully familiar. She… — Julia Quinn
I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her… — Ilona Andrews
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite… — Nick Hornby
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. — Jonah Lehrer
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of… — Alan Moore
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge… — Arthur Conan Doyle
In actual fact. The manifold sexualities - those which appear with the different ages (sexualities of the infant or the child), those which become fixated… — Michel Foucault
Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive. — Mark Z. Danielewski
It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave… — Margaret Atwood
I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more… — Carl Jung
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more… — Edmund Burke
For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I could… — Charles Yu
I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions. — Sylvia Plath
Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which… — Marguerite Yourcenar
I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would… — Albert Camus
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he… — Vladimir Nabokov
People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by… — Christopher Hitchens
.. But do you understand, I cry to him, do you understand that along with happiness, in the exact same way, in perfectly equal proportion,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The look he gave me...My stomach quivered in that exact same way when I watched Before Sunset, yearning for a guy to know me so… — Justina Chen
why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which… — Marian Keyes
But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at… — Daniel Handler

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