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There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
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It's the arrangement of events which makes the stories. It's throwing away, compressing, underlining. Hindsight can give structure to anything, but you…
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This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.
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Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
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nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a…
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In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis;…
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Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to…
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Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is…
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So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first…
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Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground.
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Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print.…
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Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into…
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You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.
— Alexander MacLaren
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We thus begin to see that the institutionalized practice of citations and references in the sphere of learning is not a trivial…
— Robert K. Merton
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Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period.
— John Donne
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There's something about a parenthesis in fiction that puts one off, saying, "It's me, moi, jumping in now."
— John L'Heureux
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
— Nicolas Chamfort
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This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.
— Deepak Chopra
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Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses…
— Oriana Fallaci
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Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks…
— Beth Kephart
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A dash is a mark of separation stronger than a comma, less formal than a colon, and more relaxed than parentheses.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.
— Sonia Rykiel
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The created World is but a small Parenthesis in Eternity.
— Thomas Browne
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I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my…
— Gail Devers
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