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These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the… — Haruki Murakami
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. — Haruki Murakami
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just… — Ken Kesey
Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three… — Stephen King
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after… — Boris Pasternak
Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to… — Miranda July
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth… — E E Cummings
Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small… — Margaret Atwood
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only… — Walker Percy
I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom… — Anne Lamott
Look closely and you will find that people are happy because they are grateful. The opposite of gratefulness is just taking everything for granted. — David Steindl-Rast
The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good… — Robert Cormier
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate,… — Nelson Mandela
Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. — Gregory Maguire
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian,… — Vera Nazarian
The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. — George Carlin
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
You have the opposite of poker face. You have like.. miniature golf face. — Elizabeth Gilbert
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are… — Michel Foucault
Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in… — Gregory Maguire
God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!...these trials are only to… — Joel Osteen
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce… — Junot Diaz
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely… — Andre Breton

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