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If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a…
— Charles M. Schulz
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I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain…
— David Nicholls
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(before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but…
— Pete Wentz
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Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.
— Anne Rice
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Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes…
— Rene Descartes
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Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask…
— Jodi Picoult
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I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort of pain where my heart is. Maybe I’m even having…
— Suzanne Collins
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I loved IRON MAN: Robert Downey Jr. has been and probably will be my favourite actor for a long time…but IRON MAN, THE INCREDIBLE HULK,…
— Grant Morrison
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The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A…
— Sylvia Plath
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Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If you’re fifteen or so, today, I suspect that you inhabit a sort of endless digital Now, a state of atemporality enabled by our increasingly…
— William Gibson
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The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries; that even in environments inhospitable to…
— Jodi Picoult
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... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her…
— Roald Dahl
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You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there…
— Jim Carroll
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Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and…
— David Foster Wallace
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Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has…
— Susanna Clarke
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There was a time you saw me once, one afternoon, in the dormitories. There was no one else around, and I was playing this tape,…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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