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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far… — Milan Kundera
Literature was the passport to enter a larger life; that is, the zone of freedom. Literature was freedom. Especially in a time in which the… — Susan Sontag
A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions.… — Oscar Wilde
It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think… — Bell Hooks
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis
The pain was quite extraordinary. And yet also weirdly welcome and restorative, bringing him news of his aliveness and his caughtness in a story larger… — Jonathan Franzen
The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,… — Jonathan Franzen
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one… — Hendrik Hertzberg
But the monotonous life led by invalids often makes them like children, inasmuch as thy have neither of them any sense of proportion in events,… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints - the ground's too cold,… — George R. R. Martin
Our standard rate. A doubloon a day." It was generous. More than generous--some families would put him up for a week for a single coin.… — Ilona Andrews
Furthermore--though it was quite irrelevant now--he had no idea his killer, Kazuo Kiriyama, had, in his mansion that was much larger than Toshinori's home in… — Koushun Takami
Your house is your larger body. — Khalil Gibran
I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people.… — Gavin de Becker
He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be… — Karen Marie Moning
Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city… — Richard Yates
We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget… — Woodrow Wilson
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all oneâ€™s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. — Ian C. Esslemont

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