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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out… — Alice Hoffman
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates. — Roald Dahl
Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought… — Robert Schumann
All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live… — Miguel de Cervantes
You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are… — Jean M. Auel
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions —… — Miguel de Unamuno
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we'll see each other tomorrow.… — Jorge Luis Borges
Christianity enhanced the notion of political and social accountability by providing a new model: that of servant leadership. In ancient Greece and Rome no one… — Dinesh D'Souza
And now I know why they invented words for love, why they had to: It's the only thing that can come close to describing what… — Lauren Oliver
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell
I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say bad-bye,… — John Green
You're a man who has suffered and wants revenge,' she said. 'Your heart is dead, your soul is in darkness. The devil by your side… — Paulo Coelho
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in… — Hermann Hesse
There are some experiences in life they haven't invented the right words for. — Lisa Kleypas
It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. — Gene Roddenberry
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more… — Agatha Christie
I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication. — Allan Bloom
Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had… — Jennifer Egan
I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars… — Hermann Hesse
Ixion exists as an antidote to the rules and conventions of other places. We believe that indulging in pleasure will make better people. Self-denial and… — Marianne de Pierres
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that… — Maggie Stiefvater
This perhaps was what lay at the root of the hysteria surrounding what came to be known as the Gold Rush: Men desiring a feeling… — Patrick deWitt

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