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555 Mainly quotes by 466 unique authors

However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how… — J D Salinger
If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I… — Ray Bradbury
Presently it appears that people are mainly concerned with being well rested. Those capable of uninterrupted sleep are much admired. Unconsciousness is in great demand.… — Fran Lebowitz
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a… — Franz Kafka
Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good. — Henry David Thoreau
Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil… — William Sloane Coffin
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of… — Tom Wolfe
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. — Carl Sagan
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from… — Robert M. Pirsig
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The… — Ingmar Bergman
All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within,… — James A. Baldwin
All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents… — Upton Sinclair
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage… — Nicholas Sparks
Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves. — Brandon Mull
This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would… — James A. Baldwin
That's right. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I know. It's Cinna who likes you. But that's mainly because you didn't try to run when… — Suzanne Collins
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
... but it's your existence I love you for, mainly. Existence seems to me now the most remarkable thing that could ever be imagined. — Marilynne Robinson
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of… — John Brunner
Mimi was massaging Salander's back and neck. She had been kneading intently for 20 minutes while Salander mainly enjoyed herself and uttered an occasional groan… — Steig Larsson
Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric pollution and modern… — Carl Sagan
There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. — Mark Twain

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