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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a… — Florence Welch
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. — Oscar Wilde
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. — Philip Pullman
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen. — Alice Walker
When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all… — Neil Gaiman
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's… — Haruki Murakami
In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of… — John Irving
Magic can be found in stolen moments. — Francesca Lia Block
What you have stolen can never be yours. — HalldÃ³r Laxness
Whipped cream isn't whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn't poached eggs unless it's been stolen… — Roald Dahl
Because, ten-year-olds of the world, you shouldn't believe what your teachers tell you about the beauty and specialness and uniqueness of you. Or, believe it,… — Sloane Crosley
Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you… — Mark Helprin
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left… — Patrick Rothfuss
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen. — Friedrich Nietzsche
And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted… — William Goldman
Oh, I can see it happening, age after age, and growing worse the more you reveal your beauty: the son turning his back on the… — C.S. Lewis
One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen. — Hermann Hesse
A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. — Michel Faber
When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our… — Alice Hoffman
I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them… — Patrick Rothfuss
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you… — Diana Gabaldon
My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness. — Aleksandar Hemon
To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of… — Garth Stein
I drive him to school, then I break back into Barron's house. I'm the best kind of thief, the kind that leaves behind items equal… — Holly Black

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