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Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill. — Karen Chance
I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the… — Joanna Russ
all bags are pack ready to go i am standing here outside your door i hate to wake you up to say goodbye dawn is… — John Denver
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He… — Epictetus
I will follow my instincts, and be myself for good or ill. — John Muir
Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave… — James Patterson
Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than… — Carrie Fisher
God saves - but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all grifters, He asks you to pay now and take… — Joe Hill
Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they were lost to fogs, depressions, cold fronts, ill winds,… — David Mitchell
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston Churchill
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms… — Sri Aurobindo
A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He… — Mahatma Gandhi
I do not traditionally speak ill of women, but your governess is a cabbagehead — Sarah MacLean
Jem seemed to look through her then, as if he were seeing something beyond her, beyond the corridor, beyond the Institute itself. "Whatever you are… — Cassandra Clare
The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might… — Megan Whalen Turner
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor — Margaret Mitchell
You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized… — Christopher Hitchens
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or… — Christopher Hitchens
Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill. — John Donne
When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive.… — Margaret Atwood
And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to… — Anthony Burgess
Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of… — J.R.R. Tolkien
But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having… — Carl Jung
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,… — Henry Miller

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