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Imagine how our own families, let alone the world, would change if we vowed to keep faith with one another, strengthen one another, look for… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals. — Dave Barry
Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor… — Clive Barker
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… — Henry James
The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself. — Emily Dickinson
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it.… — Mark Twain
Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs. — Jim Harrison
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. — Shirley Hazzard
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. — Aldo Leopold
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society… — Stephen King
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy… — Joseph Heller
If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever… — William Wilberforce
[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his… — John Steinbeck
We are dwellers in a divine universe where no desires are in vain - if only they be large enough. — George MacDonald
A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his… — Michael O'Brien
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to… — Charles de Lint
Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth… — Thomas Wolfe
I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted… — Sylvia Plath
What have I always believed? That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said,… — Terry Pratchett
For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron. — Nick Hornby
We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up… — Carl Sagan
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they… — Jeanette Winterson
Just then Neville caused a slight diversion by turning into a large canary. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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