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What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought to read the… — Gabrielle Zevin
The main thing to do is pay attention. Pay close attention to everything, notice what no one else notices. Then you'll know what no one… — Jeanne DuPrau
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession… — J. G. Ballard
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My life after childhood has two main stories: the story of the hustler and the story of the rapper, and the two overlap as much… — Jay-Z
The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto… — Hayao Miyazaki
Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth. — Tamora Pierce
But the main point is that he still had swimmers in his sacks.” “Excuse me?” “You know, luv. Sperm, if you want to be all… — Jeaniene Frost
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the… — Douglas Adams
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another. — Paul Fussell
Indulgence is emptiness. I have proved the limits of food and frivolity. There is no real fulfillment in meaningless rushes of pleasure. You try to… — Brandon Mull
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that… — Kurt Vonnegut
In the christian view, the ultimate evidence for the existence of God is Jesus Christ. If there is a God, we characters in his play… — Timothy Keller
When you think about it in the big scheme of things our time together is like a dash of spice in a big cosmic soup… — Alyson Noel
Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her… — Vasily Grossman
We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head… — Ray Bradbury
Aw, he's just you know...entrenched," Matt said. "Gotta adjust to the perspective and deal from there." Then he added, "Not that I'd want him as… — Wendelin Van Draanen
The main trouble with being an honest man was that it lost you all your illusions. — James Jones
I am a wicked man... But do you know, gentlemen, what was the main point about my wickedness? The whole thing, precisely was, the greatest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Grace is having a commitment to- or at least an acceptance of- being ineffective and foolish. That our bottled charm is the main roadblock to… — Anne Lamott
Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t… — John Irving
Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is… — Ray Bradbury
It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain… — Terry Pratchett
So," he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, "I've been thinking." "Yeah?" He nodded. "You really need to go out… — Sarah Dessen
The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to… — Andrei Tarkovsky

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