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You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because… — Kurt Vonnegut
Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East… — Zadie Smith
Just for a while": Death's opening chat-up line in His great seduction, before he drugged you with soporific comforts, distracted you with minor luxuries and… — Christopher Brookmyre
All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and… — Jeaniene Frost
When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the… — Iris Chang
Strength is Happiness. Strength is itself victory. In weakness and cowardice there is no happiness. When you wage a struggle, you might win or you… — Daisaku Ikeda
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot… — Kage Baker
I see my life in terms of music. — Albert Einstein
I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep you off our… — Steve Harvey
I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. — John McPhee
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. The boys have gone hog-wild with liberty, yet… — Dorothy Parker
Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
To hope under the most extreme circumstances is an act of defiance that permits a person to live his life on his own terms. It… — Jerome Groopman
The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted… — Brion Gysin
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I… — John Connolly
Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes… — Victor Hugo
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness. — Hermann Hesse
The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make… — Ann Druyan
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for… — Philip Jose Farmer
In accordance with the terms of the Clarke-Asimov treaty, the second-best science writer dedicates this book to the second-best science-fiction writer. [dedication to Isaac Asimov… — Arthur C. Clarke

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