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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a… — Jorge Luis Borges
It was one of those cases where you approve the broad, general principle of an idea but can't help being in a bit of a… — P.G. Wodehouse
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me,… — Isabel Allende
There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes. — Leo Tolstoy
When I was 14, a camp counselor explained what "eating out" was and I vowed to never have it done to me. It seemed cannibalistic… — Sloane Crosley
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. — Chuck Palahniuk
We didn't exactly believe your story.' Then --?' 'We believed your two hundred dollars.' 'You mean --' She seemed not to know what he meant.… — Dashiell Hammett
I never asked my mother where babies came from but I remember clearly the day she volunteered the information....my mother called me to set the… — Sloane Crosley
The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie… — Sloane Crosley
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel
The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Shut up,' he explained. — Ring Lardner
Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words.… — Richard Brautigan
While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the advance… — Plutarch
He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, but how he had not been so… — Tim O'Brien
Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or… — Mark Haddon
Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. — Cecelia Ahern
I just look at her and she creeps me out. She looks like she would eat a baby. Not that she's fat. She just looks… — Augusten Burroughs
A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when he asks a very remarkable young lady to… — Elizabeth Marie Pope
Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals — Jeanette Winterson

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