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It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.
— A A Milne
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He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it broke the tension…
— Nancy Werlin
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I am struck by how, except when you're young, you really need to prioritize in life, figuring out in what order you should divide up…
— Haruki Murakami
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I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always…
— Russell Brand
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Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have…
— Truman Capote
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It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly.
— Virginia Woolf
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…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
— Audrey Niffenegger
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As he passed me, he leaned to Curran and handed him a paper fan folded from some sort of flyer. Curran looked at the fan.…
— Ilona Andrews
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These are the sort of things people ought to look at. Things without pretensions, satisfied to be merely themselves.
— Aldous Huxley
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There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the…
— J D Salinger
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But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
— Tennessee Williams
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Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just…
— Paul Celan
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Our moment had passed somehow. I was different. He was, too. Without our “madness†to unite us, there wasn’t anything much there. Or maybe too…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk…
— Steven Hall
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...it occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in…
— Susan Minot
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It's kind of funny...the moments on which life hinges. I think growing up you always imagine your life--your success--depends on your family and how much…
— Marisha Pessl
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