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Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or 'Huckleberry Finn?' Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times… — Jane Smiley
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so… — Thomas Sowell
I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to… — Helene Hanff
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in… — Milan Kundera
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when… — Diane Setterfield
And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like… — Charles Frazier
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to… — Susanna Clarke
Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous… — Stuart Wilde
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history... The overt reversal… — Jimmy Carter
For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is… — Michael Ondaatje
Whatever art offered the men and women of previous eras, what it offers our own, it seems to me, is space - a certain breathing… — John Updike
We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. — David Levithan
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie… — Chuck Klosterman
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a… — Bill Bryson
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. — Nikola Tesla
Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to… — Diane Duane
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and… — Charles Dickens
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were in a previous… — Chuck Klosterman
There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces… — Franz Kafka

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