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The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by… — Isabelle Eberhardt
Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record.… — Miriam Toews
It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the… — Chinua Achebe
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western… — Carlos Fuentes
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition. A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels… — Alan Lightman
Come on,” he droned, “I’ve been ordered to take you down to the bridge. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they… — Douglas Adams
Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people… — Grant Morrison
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different...I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself… — Dorothy Allison
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I have to go to her, Lucan. For my own sanity, if nothing else. If I stay here, I'm not sure what good I'd be,… — Tina St. John
Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them. — Holly Black
Do y’all have enough stun guns for them? (Madaug) Does a bear defecate rurally? What kind of question is that for someone who owns the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a… — Saint Augustine
Ranger picked up and there was a moment of silence as if he was sensing me at the other end, taking my body temperature and… — Janet Evanovich
And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to… — Laurell K. Hamilton
You are all in jail. Each alone, solitary, with a heap of what he owns. You live in prison, die in prison. It is all… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If the worker and his boss enjoy the same television program and visit the same resort places, if the typist is as attractively made up… — Herbert Marcuse
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns. — Jimmy Carter
Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures… — David Eddings
Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him? — David Eddings
From the essay "Twenty-five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to Be Surprised by Over and Over Again" 1. Journalists sometimes make things up. 2.… — Nora Ephron
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without… — Paulo Coelho
I've married a man who owns nine cows," said Jinjur to Ozma, "and now I am happy and contented and willing to lead a quiet… — L. Frank Baum
The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and… — Robert Anton Wilson
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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