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It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a… — Richard Paul Evans
As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To… — Susan Sontag
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to… — Henry David Thoreau
We loved killing time and had perfected several ways of doing so. We wandered the hallways carrying papers that indicated some mission of business when… — Joshua Ferris
Shouldn't that be flipped right-side up?" I asked. "No," she said, eyes on the cards. After several moments of heavy silence, said, "You will destroy… — Richelle Mead
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a pity that we… — Loren Eiseley
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia Oâ€™Keeffe had done with where… — Joan Didion
Were-Hunters are different from humans. (Ravyn) You mean other than the fact that you live for several hundred years, can turn into animals, time travel,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys. It… — Neil Gaiman
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed my head, made… — Jim Butcher
I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers… — Madeleine L'Engle
Witihin seconds the headhunter had lost control of his car and it squealed, sliding sideways right into several other cars. Cool!' said the Gasman. — James Patterson
You really donâ€™t want to take that tone with me. (Varyk) Well, I do have several others we can choose from. Contemptuous. Angry. Snide. Aggravated.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
What does this Daimon look like? (Xedrix) Heâ€™s tall and blond. (Kyle) Well, that narrows it down to every Daimon here except Stryker. What would… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,â€ he said, almost to himself. â€œThereâ€™s… — John Flanagan
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who… — Milan Kundera
...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time. — Jonah Lehrer
We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes. — Christopher Hitchens
When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee,… — Charles M. Schulz

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