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There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. — Eugene H. Peterson
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and… — Suzanne Collins
Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.) — Jean Rhys
I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out… — Frederick Buechner
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part… — Frederick Buechner
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the… — Gaston Bachelard
The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my… — Edgar Allan Poe
There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying… — Colum McCann
Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator,… — Peter Kreeft
THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon.… — Rick Riordan
...there is a celebrated aphorism insisting that the best way to live is to 'work like you don't need the money, dance like nobody is… — Gina Barreca
Murphy hung up and I said, to the still-open line, "Hey, if you've got someone watching my place, could you call the cops if anyone… — Jim Butcher
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color… — Diane Ackerman
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
["All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew word that has been translated "paths"… — Charles Spurgeon
Go where the pleasure is in your writing. Go where the pain is. Write the book you would like to read. Write the book you… — Anne Rice
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first… — Christopher McDougall
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles… — Ian Caldwell
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,… — Ann Brashares
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When… — John Grisham
Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things… — Swami Satchidananda

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