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He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million… — Barbara Kingsolver
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you… — Barbara Kingsolver
The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness. — David Mazzucchelli
When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you… — Darcey Steinke
She understood him. He could not forgive her,-but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and… — Jane Austen
maybe she had become tired of being the girlfriend of a condemned man. It also occured to me that maybe she was sick, or dead.… — Albert Camus
I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley
Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was… — Frank O'Hara
We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out… — Edward de Bono
In that moment, the machinery of the world lined up. Somewhere a clock struck midnight, and Hugo's future seemed to fall perfectly into place. — Brian Selznick
I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance,… — Sylvia Plath
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't… — Randy Pausch
It's just harder out there in the world of the living, and we cannot protect you out there as easily. I wanted to keep you… — Neil Gaiman
If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural.… — Timothy Keller
Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final… — Darren Shan
But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33) — Milan Kundera
In my lame pescetarian defense, it's very hard to be a girl and say you won't eat something. Refuse one plate of bacon-wrapped pork rinds… — Sloane Crosley
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural… — Jane Austen
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in… — Edith Wharton
I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own… — Sarah Dessen
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved… — Sherman Alexie
Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon. — Graham Chapman
I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red… — Jean Webster

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