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We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in… — Shirley Jackson
When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there.… — Kurt Vonnegut
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in… — David Wroblewski
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of… — Henry David Thoreau
I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now… — Alex Haley
What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and… — James Joyce
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind… — George Santayana
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without… — Diana Gabaldon
If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if… — Khaled Hosseini
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to… — Barack Obama
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,… — Sue Monk Kidd
In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would… — Marcus Aurelius
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be… — Sigmund Freud
As we passed under a streetlamp I noticed, beside my own bobbing shadow, another great, leaping grotesquerie that had an uncanny suggestion of the frog… — Loren Eiseley
Anything to declare? the customs inspector said."Two pound of uncut heroin and a manual of pornographic art," Mark answered, looking about for Kity. All Americans… — Leon Uris
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness… — Edmond Rostand
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough… — Harper Lee
Where now are the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright… — J.R.R. Tolkien
However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… — Chinua Achebe
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The hour of noon has passed,' said Judge Fang. 'Let us go and get some Kentucky Fried Chicken. — Neal Stephenson
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he… — John C. Maxwell

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