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Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom…
— C.S. Lewis
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After a childhood of hungering to be an adult, my hunger had passed. Unexpected fates had begun to catch my notice. These middle-aged women seemed…
— Lorrie Moore
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I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.
— Alexandra Ivy
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We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with a dreamy half…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.
— Frank Zappa
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The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets updates from UFOlogists,…
— Steig Larsson
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Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?' Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning…
— Terry Pratchett
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It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Yeah, and Mr. Cuddles is a jealous sort. He doesn’t share us well. (Geary) Does this mean I’ll have to fight him? (Arik) You’d never…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny. What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious. "Nothing. I just hadn't realised before.…
— Stephenie Meyer
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[J.Lo] found us a police car. Sort of. 'It's not a police car,' I said. 'It is,' said J.Lo. 'Looknow. Lights for flashing.' 'That's true.'…
— Adam Rex
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Marriage is a sort of tacit hunting in couples. The world all in couples, each couple in its own little house, watching its own little…
— Susan Sontag
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It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever…
— Terry Pratchett
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But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting…
— Neal Stephenson
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Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious beginning, a difficult…
— Dave Eggers
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Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Gracie: You have an unusual house. Have you lived here long? Bobby Tom: A couple of years. I don't much like it myself, but the…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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I've pursued dreams and achieved them, but I don't think anybody should think their life is incomplete if they don't follow some dream. Happiness doesn't…
— Janette Rallison
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...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance...
— Charles Finch
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