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If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his… — Ayn Rand
...quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean â€œloveâ€ in any colloquial way, I mean that I was in love… — Joan Didion
They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I… — Eddie Izzard
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food. — William Wordsworth
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens
There he stood, in the camouflage of sun and shade, disfigured by them and masked by his own nakedness. — Vladimir Nabokov
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin — Bob Dylan
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to… — J D Salinger
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to the storms that… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a… — Diana Gabaldon
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock. — Peter S. Beagle
For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled… — Hillary Clinton
At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her… — Paulo Coelho
My only answer is, if my grave stood open on one side and you upon the other I'd go into my grave before I would… — Louisa May Alcott
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God… — Cormac McCarthy
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands. In the course of the experiment, that chimp had a baby. Imagine how her… — Amy Hempel
The tree that never had to fight for sun and sky and air and light but stood out in the open plain and always got… — Douglas Malloch
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… — Cormac McCarthy
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… — Cormac McCarthy
She stood looking carefully at the labeled portraits Ursala had put up: Little Crow, Chief of the Santees, Geronimo, last of the Apaches, and Ursala's… — Eva Ibbotson

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