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I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying. — Ivan KlÃma
If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally… — Noam Chomsky
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have… — Jorge Luis Borges
Yes, Eden was beautiful- and if I had to squeeze through corporeal keyholes to crash it- so be it. (Hasnâ€™t it bothered you, this part… — Glen Duncan
Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but… — Neil Gaiman
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and… — Nancy Mitford
If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business… — Poppy Z. Brite
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things… — Jonathan Franzen
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we… — Maya Angelou
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and… — Michel Houellebecq
In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment… — H P Lovecraft
Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Let me say something about that word: miracle. For too long it's been used to characterize things or events that, though pleasant, are entirely normal.… — Leif Enger
If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson — Barbara Mertz
What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research. — L. Ron Hubbard
He stopped to rest at a cart selling nuts and candy, bought himself some Jelly Belly's, flirted just enought with the Mexican cutie working there… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in… — Zadie Smith
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination. — J.R.R. Tolkien

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