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In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him… — J.R.R. Tolkien
People in general would rather die than forgive. It's THAT hard. If God said in plain language. "I'm giving you a choice, forgive or die,"… — Sue Monk Kidd
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a… — Haruki Murakami
Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. — Judith Guest
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with… — David Foster Wallace
I got a washed out version of Momâ€™s curls and a better copy of Dadâ€™s blue eyes, The rest of me, I guess, is up… — Lilith Saintcrow
I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars… — Jim Harrison
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it… — Jorge Luis Borges
Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book… — John Kennedy Toole
I was just teasing," I say. "I myself don't like to eat plain butter, but hey, it's a free world. — Lauren Myracle
But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then… — Jodi Picoult
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night,… — Flann O'Brien
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor… — Steven Johnson
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is… — Oscar Wilde
And heâ€™s just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary) Sheâ€™s feisty, Skotos. I can see… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant… — Angela Carter
Tell him what? Katâ€™s a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara) Tara! (Kat) Oh, all right. Sheâ€™s so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If… — Jung Chang
It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the… — Terry Pratchett
In spite of all the talk and study about our next years, all the silent ponderings about what lies within them...it seems plain to us… — M.F.K. Fisher

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