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Flidais clapped her hands in delight. "Oh, I bet he nearly shat kine!" That made me laugh - I hadn't heard that expression in a… — Kevin Hearne
The way we think may be completely different, but you and I are an ancient, archetypal couple, the original man and woman. We are the… — Banana Yoshimoto
I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the… — Pablo Neruda
Contemporary fantasists all bow politely to Lord Tennyson and Papa Tolkien, then step around them to go back to the original texts for inspiration--and there… — David Eddings
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we… — R C Sproul
I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in… — Bram Stoker
He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined,… — FÃ©lix J. Palma
Real danger is nothing more than just living. Of course, living is merely the chaos of existence, but more than that it's a crazy mixed-up… — Yukio Mishima
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes… — Charles M. Schulz
I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find… — Lisa Kleypas
Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
A writer does not own words any more than a painter owns colors. So lets dispense with this originality fetish… Look, listen and transcribe and… — William S. Burroughs
But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep… — Sarah Dessen
Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you… — Bryce Courtenay
At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God… — Haruki Murakami
Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and… — Ozzy Osbourne
Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself. — George Bernard Shaw
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales… — Terri Windling
This is the thing they don't tell you about being a third wheel - it's not like you're the wheel that's added on. You were… — David Levithan
When I watched Lifetime original movies, it took me a day or two to get over the idea that the cute boy next door is… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if… — John Gardner
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber… — Haruki Murakami

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