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Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are…
— Libba Bray
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These dreams reminded me that, since I wished some day to become a writer, it was high time to decide what sort of books I…
— Marcel Proust
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I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's…
— Deb Caletti
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But I know I would not go out. I had taken this time to fall in love instead — in love with the sort of…
— Alice Sebold
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He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony;…
— William Shakespeare
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Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by... I'm going to say hello to her and…
— Charles M. Schulz
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There's only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos.
— Marilyn Monroe
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Halt shook his head. "You warriors don't do much geography in Battleschool, do you?" Horace shrugged. "We're not big on that sort of thing. We…
— John Flanagan
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You might tell me that you have been engaging in some deep questioning and theological rethinking.1 You can no longer live with the faith you…
— Brian D. McLaren
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Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or…
— Edmund Burke
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I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a young…
— Anne Lamott
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It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. " First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, THEN the ravenous demon hordes. In that order."…
— Cassandra Clare
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Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re…
— Ray Bradbury
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She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
— Milan Kundera
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My brother said that at Eton, students were told caning builds character. I suppose girls are caned less because we aren't thought to have much…
— Mary Jo Putney
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I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One…
— Gene Stratton-Porter
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...and horror of horrors, he realized that he was experiencing some sort of a crush. He needed to kill something.
— Larissa Ione
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Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his…
— Thomas Mann
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When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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