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What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that… — Tupac Shakur
Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting. — P.G. Wodehouse
They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation… — Jane Austen
Through their deeds, the dead of battle have spoken more eloquently for themselves than any of the living ever could. But we can only honor… — Abraham Lincoln
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women… — Barbra Streisand
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find… — Cornelia Funke
This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself… — J D Salinger
Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don’t happen to like frozen yogurt do you? I love… — Joss Whedon
I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the… — David James Duncan
Time is an enormous, long river, and I’m standing in it, just as you’re standing in it. My elders are the tributaries, and everything they… — Utah Phillips
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to… — William Goldman
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance. — Mark Helprin
They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no… — Meredith Ann Pierce
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal… — Ayn Rand
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique… — Haruki Murakami
Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of… — Terry Pratchett
Count yourself lucky. I watched my entire family as they were eaten alive by the very pack of animals you have downstairs in your house… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
she braided my sister's hair with hands that smelled deep roots buried in the earth she told me the old stories how time never mattered… — Sherman Alexie
He loved possessions, not masses of them, but a select few that he did not part with. They gave a man self-respect. Not ostentation but… — Patricia Highsmith
Remember when you fell out of that tree on the farm when you were ten, and broke your arm? Remember how he made them let… — Cassandra Clare
And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It… — Gayle Forman
Who snitched?" "We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust… — Ilona Andrews
The early church was strikingly different from the culture around it in this way - the pagan society was stingy with its money and promiscuous… — Timothy Keller

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