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I'm not sure that insecurity is a good enough excuse for that sort of behavior. We're all insecure, and I really think he's old enough… — Jane Green
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!â€ he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say â€˜out of the frying-pan into the fireâ€™… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who â€” well â€” something of that sort.. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us wasting time. This… — Donald Miller
There is something about the aroma of fresh books that's totally intoxicating. A new book has a certain clean, crisp smell full of promise that… — Debra Ginsberg
-the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at… — David Foster Wallace
A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way… — Chuck Klosterman
Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining… — Kij Johnson
I think part of the reason I'm attracted to Foster is because he's such a mess. I mean, the people I have loved in my… — Augusten Burroughs
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness,… — T.H. White
She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming… — Cassandra Clare
Know, then, that now, precisely now, these people are more certain than ever before that they are completely free, and at the same time they… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What do you know about women?" They smell nice, they don't like to be told they can't do something, and, when they're naked, they hold… — Katie MacAlister
But a lot of times, people die how they live. And so last words tell me a lot about who people were, and why they… — John Green
On the other hand, winning awards is cool. Aside from the warm fuzzy, it creates publicity, and that helps spread the word about the book.… — Patrick Rothfuss
Tell me, was I the sort of person who took your elbow when cars passed on the street, touched your cheek while you talked, combed… — Nicole Krauss
The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique… — Bertrand Russell
But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and… — Dennis Lehane

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