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Some stories, sheâ€™d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they… — Chuck Palahniuk
The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark… — Susan Cooper
On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of… — Tom Robbins
At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side… — D. J. MacHale
Gonna rain like a cow pissin' on a flat rock" [drugstore clerk to detective Virgil Flowers] Dark of the Moon, p.7 — John Sandford
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance… — Carl Sagan
The truth was I knew, after all those flat January days, that I deserved better. I deserved I love yous and kiwi fruits and warriors… — Sarah Dessen
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny… — Ken Kesey
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.... — Philip Larkin
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were the flat, thin… — Irving Stone
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting… — Anthony Bourdain
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker
The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad… — Hermann Hesse
In some corner of the world they are probably still holding regular meetings of the Flat Earth Society. We derive no comfort because important people,… — Warren Buffett
Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know… — Jeanette Winterson
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful… — Flannery O'Connor
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for… — E. Nesbit

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