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... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit…
— Anthony Burgess
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So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor…
— James Howe
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This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in…
— David Sedaris
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I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep,…
— Haruki Murakami
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him.…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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To a person who expects every desert to be barren sand dunes, the Sonoran must come as a surprise. Not only are there no dunes,…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Funny thing, your brain, how it always functions on one level or another. How, even stuck in some sort of subconcious limbo, it works your…
— Ellen Hopkins
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When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of…
— David Sedaris
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However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,†flag…
— Sarah Vowell
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The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
— Hilaire Belloc
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If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
— Daniel Handler
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For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A…
— Toni Morrison
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There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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You're probably gonna find this hard to believe, but I was sort of weird when I was a kid." Salvatore "Sally" Sweet
— Janet Evanovich
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Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
— Garth Nix
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Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of…
— Jeanne DuPrau
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Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared…
— Laurie R. King
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It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things…
— Donald Miller
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