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849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors
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Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the…
— Albert Camus
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Brightpaw's eye opened and she fixed a cloudy gaze on Fireheart. "What happened?" he repeated. "What did this?" A thin wailing came from Brightpaw, which…
— Erin Hunter
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
— Angela Carter
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Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back.…
— Patricia A. McKillip
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I have this love for Mattie. It was formed in me as he himself was formed. It has his shape, you might say. He fits…
— Wendell Berry
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Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that…
— Bell Hooks
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Now, as far as I knew, he (Luke) was still sailing around on his demon-infested cruise ship while the chopped-up Lord Kronos re-formed, bit by…
— Rick Riordan
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I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer,…
— Charles Darwin
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Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his…
— Meg Cabot
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He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.
— Nicole Krauss
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In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding.…
— Terry Pratchett
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Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others…
— Mary Doria Russell
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I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long…
— Robin Hobb
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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would…
— Charles Darwin
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The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen…
— Aristotle
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by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a…
— Jodi Picoult
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It's funny how someone's perception of you can be formed without you even knowing it.
— Sarah Dessen
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The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he…
— Isaac Asimov
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Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak…
— Deborah Harkness
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Living is not thinking. Thought is formed and guided by objective reality outside us. Living is the constant adjustment of thought to life and life…
— Thomas Merton
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We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real…
— Diane Ackerman
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This is so cool," I said loudly as Dad walked away. "Have you met the tattoo artist? Is he hot?" "He's a she," Mom said.…
— Kelley Armstrong
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The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains its echo. Before…
— Morgan Llywelyn
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