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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I would hope that we would not lose the real objective of our cherished opportunities to serve. That objective, that eternal goal,…
— Thomas S. Monson
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Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.
— James Harvey Robinson
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This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so…
— Simon Blackburn
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I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty…
— Roger Nash Baldwin
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Times of tragedy and war naturally bring out strong emotions... Sometimes people are only too anxious to sacrifice their constitutional liberties during…
— Ron Paul
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If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have…
— Tommy Franks
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Today, I join King Abdullah in Paris to stand in solidarity with the people of France in their darkest hour...To stand in…
— Queen Rania of Jordan
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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