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Roy received my comments with a forced smile. "Hardy, didn't I warn you not to date a woman who reads?" Hardy seemed amused by my… — Lisa Kleypas
Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real. — Gene Wolfe
I really tried, or so I thought, to avoid lying, but it seemed to me that they forced it on me by the difference in… — Mary McCarthy
Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have… — Donald Miller
anyone who gets up early by inclination or has been forced to rise early out of necessity finds it intolerable that others should go on… — Jose Saramago
You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette… — Terry Pratchett
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This… — J.A. Konrath
I forced a smile. It was the one I'd been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between. — Becca Fitzpatrick
Daisy has a unique spirit. A warm and romantic nature. If she is forced into a loveless marriage, she will be devastated. She deserves a… — Lisa Kleypas
When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and… — Jean Rhys
And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only… — Jeanette Winterson
Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a… — Sue Grafton
The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think… — Shannon Hale
Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a… — Barry Lyga
I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man… — Ernest Hemingway
But I think sometimes a person has to be forced underwater to see if they're going to drown or swim. — Karen White
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen… — Rick Riordan
The time will come when you will be forced to make a choice,” Hanalea said. “When that time comes, choose love. — Cinda Williams Chima
He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He… — Lee Child
Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks… — Lauren Oliver
You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when you are in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads… — Kenneth Grahame
Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back… — John Green
Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer… — Haruki Murakami
In all probability the Human Genome Project will, someday, find that I carry some recessive gene for optimism, because despite all my best efforts I… — Chuck Palahniuk

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