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537 Removed quotes by 470 unique authors

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer
I find the treatment of royalty distinctly peculiar. The royal family lives in palaces heavily screened from prying eyes by fences, grounds, gates, guards, all… — Helene Hanff
I had removed my patent leather shoes after a while, for they foundered badly in the sand. It pleased me to think they would be… — Sylvia Plath
In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?”… — Maria V. Snyder
I am a rapist and a sadistic pig,' if you get that tattoo removed I will carve it into your forehead, do you understand? — Steig Larsson
someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream… — Orson Scott Card
Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the… — Janet Evanovich
His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be… — Veronica Roth
I tensed, waiting for the fury - both his and mine - but it was only quiet and calm in the darkness of his room.… — Stephenie Meyer
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of… — William Gibson
Soldiers may be wounded in battle and sent to a hospital. A hospital isn't a shelf. It's a place of repair. And a soldier in… — Amy Carmichael
Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male… — Gordon Korman
I brought the birdcages to the windows. I opened the windows, and opened the birdcages. I poured the fish down the drain. I took the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not… — Anne Fadiman
I suddenly leaned forward,bringing my face close to hers.catching her breath,stifling that laugh and pink tongue,she watched me wide-eyed.I removed the wallet from my back… — Chetan Bhagat
Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language." Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?" "With the cussing removed? He… — Rick Riordan
What did he say?" Hazel asked. "With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top," Percy replied. — Rick Riordan
If you died it would be like my bones had been removed. No one would know why, but I would collapse. — Sarah Kane
This is, in part, why there is less magic in the world today. Magic is secret and secrets are magic, after all, and years upon… — Erin Morgenstern
I followed him up the stairs. I was a fornicator, of unnatural appetite, in thrall to an Atheist. I repeated the words in my head… — Maria McCann
He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to… — Kristin Hannah
The sublime is only a step removed from the ridiculous. — Theodor Adorno
Kingsley did the same, except he also removed his T-shirt, showing off his broad chest, tan and smooth. When had Kingsley had time to work… — Melissa de la Cruz
The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded… — Eric Ludy

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