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For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up… — Thomas Pynchon
And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the… — Elizabeth McCracken
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession… — J. G. Ballard
Wishes are slippery things. You have to be very specific or you can get exactly what you wished for and still end up with nothing. — Cynthia Lord
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You… — Mitch Albom
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could… — Anna Quindlen
The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power. — David Wilkerson
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and… — Tim O'Brien
A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that… — Kate Elliott
What iâ€™m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on… — Elif Safak
For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such… — Julius Evola
...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very… — Michelle Tea
Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. — Mindy Kaling
Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape… — Michael Card
Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?"… — Judith McNaught
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance. — Douglas Hofstadter
But discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ...Christ speaks to us exactly… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Heâ€™s bound to have done something,â€ Nobby repeated. In this he was echoing the Patricianâ€™s view of crime and punishment. If there was a crime,… — Terry Pratchett
Well, I believe she went in to rescue some Raggers from the pits,â€ Cuffs said. â€œShe wasnâ€™t all that specific.â€ â€œShe went in to rescue… — Cinda Williams Chima
In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field. — Richard Yates

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