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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you…

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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of…
People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know.…
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's…
I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for…
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk,…
She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of…
All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to…
The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch…
Of course I loved books more than people.
When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure…

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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine
Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you… — Martin Luther
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a… — Clinton Scollard
We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even… — Janet Morris
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. — George Santayana
Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick. — Henry Ward Beecher
Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief. — William Shakespeare
Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is… — R C Sproul
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her… — Manny Farber
I went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some… — Robert Pattinson
...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature,… — William Crookes

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