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I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked… — John Steinbeck
Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too… — Jeanette Winterson
EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards… — Siegfried Sassoon
She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
And while one is brought up with luxury and caresses, and is thrown bewildered and despairing into a dark pit, another is lifted from the… — Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the… — Donita K. Paul
Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out… — Donita K. Paul
It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How… — Robin Hobb
Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a… — Rumi
Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did… — Virginia Woolf
Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there.… — Sarah Dessen
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death… — John Updike
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light,… — Ayn Rand
Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the… — Terry Pratchett
I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that,… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?" Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg. "Monkey," Varg… — Jim Butcher
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits… — Ursula K. Le Guin
He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs.… — Joe Hill
Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head. — Seth Grahame-Smith
The king lifted a hand to her cheek and kissed her. It was not a kiss between strangers, not even a kiss between a bride… — Megan Whalen Turner
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came… — William Faulkner
in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered,… — Emily Bronte

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