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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can… — James Gleick
Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If… — Robert A. Heinlein
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing. — Scott Westerfeld
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom. — Susan Howatch
Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful… — Don DeLillo
Mom and Dad were great, but being asked where I was going every time I left the house - or where I'd been every time… — Lauren Weisberger
Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them… — Cornelia Funke
Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly. — Isaac Asimov
Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly.… — Rick Riordan
That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years. — Erich Maria Remarque
Dirk turned on the car wipers, which grumbled because they didn't have quite enough rain to wipe away, so he turned them off again. Rain… — Douglas Adams
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not. — Richard Paul Evans
I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil… — Sara Gruen
The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time… — Elwyn Brooks White
Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at… — Paulo Coelho
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father,… — Amy Tan
How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble. — Patrick SÃ¼skind

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