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3280 quotes by 2324 authors
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But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused…
— Thomas Pynchon
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His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a…
— Margaret Weis
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What…
— Katharine Hepburn
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Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers…
— Ann Brashares
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In the 18th century we knew how everything was done, but here I rise through the air, I listen to voices in America, I see…
— Virginia Woolf
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There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain…
— Eckhart Tolle
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well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting…
— Dave Pelzer
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If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.
— Deepak Chopra
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And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised…
— Jane Yolen
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't…
— Annie Dillard
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I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me! Only victory can return my life to me!
— Terry Goodkind
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I have a lot of faith. But I am also afraid a lot, and have no real certainty about anything. I remembered something Father Tom…
— Anne Lamott
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A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes…
— Lisa Kleypas
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But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while…
— Thornton Wilder
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You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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My instinct was always have your gun in your hand. Especially when you are telling somebody to do something. But, in fact, the police academy…
— Augusten Burroughs
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For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
— T.H. White
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