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But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad… — Jane Austen
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day… — Susanna Clarke
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. — George Balanchine
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre
He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony;… — William Shakespeare
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — Joseph Conrad
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, CortÃ©s'll lay… — David Mitchell
That mush plays havoc downstairs, you know? — Alexander Gordon Smith
He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm… — Jandy Nelson
One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day. — Albert Camus
If more people recognized the difference between friendship and mere attraction, or how love must partake of both to prosper, I expect there'd be more… — Sherwood Smith
Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. — J D Salinger
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. — Fernando Pessoa
Ranger plays by his own set of rules, and I don't have a complete copy. — Janet Evanovich
Papa sat with me tonight. He brought the accordion down and sat close to where Max used to sit. I often look at his fingers… — Markus Zusak
We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game. And there is as much… — Pascal Mercier
The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays… — Soren Kierkegaard
lectures broke into one's day and were clearly a terrible waste of time, necessary no doubt if you were reading law or medicine or some… — Stephen Fry
I do so hope he plays us 'The Rains of Castamere.' It has been an hour. I've forgotten how it goes -- Olenna Tyrell, the… — George R. R. Martin
ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct.… — Haruki Murakami

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