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You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to pay for everything.… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo… — Flannery O'Connor
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high… — Ali Smith
She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone face down on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back… — Ian Mcewan
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is… — Hunter S. Thompson
It occurred to me that if Africa needed us, sometimes we needed Africa a great deal more. — Helen Fielding
When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. — John Irving
It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's… — Erma Bombeck
...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always… — Margaret Haddix
It smells terrible in here.' Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this… — John Kennedy Toole
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… — Ian Mcewan
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to… — Robert A. Heinlein
his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them. — Ian Mcewan
We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. — Maya Angelou
There was something I needed to say. “Sorry. About before.” Fang shot a sideways glance at me, his eyes dark and inscrutable, as always. He… — James Patterson
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the… — John Steinbeck
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered. — Lloyd Alexander
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at… — Ernest Hemingway
It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning… — Viktor E. Frankl
Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed,"… — Lloyd Alexander
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on the Great Plains… — Louis L'Amour
She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him… — Nicholas Evans

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