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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
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at… — Libba Bray
But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture… — Kenneth Grahame
He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture.… — William Goldman
It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that… — Betty Smith
But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage.… — Rachel Caine
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by… — Flannery O'Connor
In this world of ours, a world of powerful centers and subjugated outposts, there is no wealth that must not be held in some suspicion. — Eduardo Galeano
And there stood Basta with his foot already on another dead body, smiling. Why not? He had hit his target, and it was the target… — Cornelia Funke
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of… — Chuck Palahniuk
My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you… — Keith Ablow
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that… — Victor Hugo
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics? Yet here's a travelled man that… — William Butler Yeats
One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and… — Charles Darwin
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and… — Henry David Thoreau

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