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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a…

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It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed…
Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very…
I was trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life…
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It…
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was…
Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that…
It seems so long ago that he was last afraid of anything. Seventeen, was he then? Eighteen? Sometimes he thinks he's missing…
I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to…
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in…
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist;…
All guys are scared of each other, didn't you know that? I'm not the only one. We're all born afraid.

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No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no… — George Washington
There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes… — Joan Rivers
[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which… — James Madison
A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of… — Jill Lepore
The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary. — Alfred Kreymborg
The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was… — Cornell Woolrich
Perhaps, some day, humanity can start afresh, a new world, a tabula rasa, a world with a mind without prior experiences. No… — Henry Martyn
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by… — James Russell Lowell
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much. — Oscar Nunez
The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change. — Ed Markey
I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp. — Daniel Clowes
Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch… — Og Mandino

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