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No matter whether one is flying over Newfoundland or the sea of lights that stretches from Boston to Philadelphia after nightfall, over the Arabian deserts… — W G Sebald
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of… — Edward Abbey
We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city… — Clive Barker
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart… — Henry James
The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his… — Arnold Bennett
Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now. — Yann Martel
It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist. — Rebecca West
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure. — Bill Watterson
To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God;… — Alice Walker
Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer.… — Oswald Chambers
You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel… — Michael Ende
Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what… — Italo Calvino
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so… — E. M. Forster
Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a… — Dave Barry
You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and… — Jodi Picoult
Talent must be a fanatical mistress. She's beautiful; when you're with her, people watch you, they notice. But she bangs on your door at odd… — David Benioff
Maybe marriage, like life, is'nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly… — Sarah Dessen
It is the pull of opposite poles that stretches souls. And only stretched souls make music. — Eric Hoffer
anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author. — Madeleine L'Engle
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into… — Rabindranath Tagore
This was love, I supposed, and eventually I would come to know it. Someday it would choose me and I would come to know its… — Lorrie Moore
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit… — Audrey Niffenegger
But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps… — Randa Abdel-Fattah

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