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6171 quotes by 4232 authors
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Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and…
— Terry Pratchett
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The big steel wheels creaked a couple times, then started moving.
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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Somebody said that it couldn't be done But he with a chuckle replied That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say…
— Edgar Guest
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The efficiency of the cleaning solution in liquefying wizards suggested the operation of an antithetical principal,which-" "Did you have to get him started?" Cimorene asked…
— Patricia C. Wrede
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You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of…
— Terry Pratchett
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Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile. "The dam snack bar?" Zoe blinked.…
— Rick Riordan
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But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last…
— Shane Claiborne
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Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the…
— John Steinbeck
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Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.
— Junot Diaz
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Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind…
— C.S. Lewis
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My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you…
— Jodi Picoult
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For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should have that effect…
— Martin Amis
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I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on…
— Ken Kesey
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I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on…
— Nick Cave
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Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:…
— Joe Dunthorne
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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what.…
— Mark Victor Hansen
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.
— David Eddings
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Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's…
— Sarah Dessen
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I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our…
— Eudora Welty
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