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6171 quotes by 4232 authors
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I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?' There were so many questions in life. You couldn't…
— Sarah Dessen
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Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold ring, and so was old…
— J D Salinger
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I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through…
— Aaron Sorkin
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We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We can drag it…
— Richard Bach
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and…
— John Green
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For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action,…
— Ralph Ellison
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Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
— Harper Lee
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You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in…
— Tom Robbins
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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
— Mario Puzo
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i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol…
— E E Cummings
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So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara…
— Haruki Murakami
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Maybe every couple lived in the gaps between conversations, unable to say the important things for fear they had already been said, or couldn't be…
— Jess Walter
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This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself…
— J D Salinger
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It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy…
— John Waters
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Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.
— Terry Pratchett
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The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Oh yeah brother I was right they started in with that mormon vudo right off the bat as soon as we walked in everybody was…
— Glenn Beck
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As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess…
— Anne Lamott
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Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the room.…
— Nicole Krauss
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