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The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had…
— Marian Keyes
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There was an electric anger in his gaze, and a sort of challenge that made Simon long to hit him with something heavy. Like a…
— Cassandra Clare
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You know, feeling and action are always linked, one can't exist without the other. It's sort of a hippie thing.-Wes
— Sarah Dessen
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Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT." Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
— Terry Pratchett
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Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say, ‘Now I have reached the bottom of the pit, now I…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All…
— Wade Davis
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Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once…
— Carol Shields
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Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I…
— Toni Morrison
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But if you caught my informant,' said Achilles, 'why in the world would Chamrajnagar—or Graff, if it was him—launch the shuttle anyway? Was catching me…
— Orson Scott Card
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To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their…
— Milan Kundera
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I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Living to an extraordinary age, she mourned them all equally as she buried her husband and, one by one, her children. In this suffering she…
— Martine Leavitt
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I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew…
— Lloyd Jones
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Fools!" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. "That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned…
— C.S. Lewis
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It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked…
— Terry Pratchett
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It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women…
— Libba Bray
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...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
— Dodie Smith
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Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the…
— Milan Kundera
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Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.
— Sigmund Freud
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