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Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She… — E. M. Forster
I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed… — Patrick White
There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her… — Karl Pilkington
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym
3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must… — Jaclyn Moriarty
The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of… — C.S. Lewis
The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and… — George Orwell
the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was… — Tim O'Brien
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.… — Aldous Huxley
I think it is one of the most extraordinary elections, a turning point for our country and for the world. That remarkable young man [Barack… — David McCullough
Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is… — Susanna Kaysen
I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I… — Unknown Author
Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates.… — Stevie Smith
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English… — Sylvia Plath
And she was good to me: strong, fun, and fiercely loyal. And if I didn't have many other friends because of her-most girls were intimidated… — Sarah Dessen
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day… — Samuel Johnson
People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer… — Hermann Hesse
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,… — Cornelia Funke
A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was a tyrant. If God is… — Karen Armstrong
But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered,… — Elizabeth Strout
I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed… — Nicholas Sparks
you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection.… — William Goldman
All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her… — Toni Morrison
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I… — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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