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The characters within a book were, from a certain point of view, identical on some fundamental level ‒ there weren't any images of them, no…
— Jim Butcher
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It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get…
— Jodi Picoult
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....basically the sort of guy who looks entirely at home in sockless white loafers and a mint-green knit shirt from Lacoste.
— David Foster Wallace
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There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity.
— Diana Palmer
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For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
— Muriel Spark
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What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been caught…
— Louise Erdrich
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Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who…
— David Sedaris
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I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort…
— Agatha Christie
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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.
— Jeannette Walls
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The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much…
— Douglas Adams
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Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as people…
— Mary Roach
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Normally if I met a guy who was unemployed and illiterate who hadn't bathed in a couple of weeks, I'd be standing in a puddle…
— Christopher Moore
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Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so…
— Jeremy Clarkson
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Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
— William James
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We had entered an era of limitlessness, or the illusion thereof, and this in itself is a sort of wonder. My grandfather lived a life…
— Wendell Berry
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Lookin up at the huge baboons, I wondered if Khufu had some sort of secret baboon code that would get us in. But instead he…
— Rick Riordan
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As I dive between the legs of a big Gunnar, I see Mair wind up and slam her shockstick hard as she can between the…
— Ann Aguirre
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Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him…
— Nikolai Gogol
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