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Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear. — Daniel Handler
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big… — Alfred Hitchcock
If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine… — Daniel Handler
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence. — Noam Chomsky
Because you don't notice the light without a bit of shadow. Everything has both dark and light. You have to play with it till you… — Libba Bray
When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was… — George W. Bush
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could… — George Orwell
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what… — David James Duncan
They were adored by the Germans, who thought they were exactly what Englishmen ought to be. They made war look stylish and reasonable, and fun...… — Kurt Vonnegut
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it,… — Marilynne Robinson
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to… — Libba Bray
Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to. — Simone de Beauvoir
Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so… — Simone de Beauvoir
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. — Simone Weil
Oh please," said Zacharias Smith, rolling his eyes and folding his arms. "I don't think Expelliarmus is exactly going to help us against You-Know-Who, do… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels… — Chris Crutcher
Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now. — Neale Donald Walsch
Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people. — Orson Scott Card
He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the… — Jodi Picoult
The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of… — George Saunders
You," Said Dr. Yavitch, "are a middle-road liberal, and you haven't the slightest idea what you want. I, being a revolutionist, know exactly what I… — Sinclair Lewis

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