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I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking,… — Ernest Hemingway
It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in… — Cormac McCarthy
I never felt magic crazy as this I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea I never held emotion in the palm of… — Nick Drake
If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are… — Marquis de Sade
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous… — Khaled Hosseini
They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
As a writing man, or secretary, I have always felt charged with the safekeeping of all unexpected items of worldly and unworldly enchantment, as though… — Elwyn Brooks White
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,… — Victor Hugo
Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede. — Samuel Beckett
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and… — Rebecca Solnit
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.… — Charles Frazier
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive"… — P.J. O'Rourke
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be… — Anne Frank
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not… — Ellen DeGeneres
I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages… — Charles Dickens
I inhale great draught of space...the east and west are mine...and the north and south are mine...I am grandeur than I thought...I did not know… — Walt Whitman
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay.… — Chinua Achebe
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone? — Stephen King

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