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This is our commitment to users and the people who use our service, is that Facebook's a free service. It's free now. It will always… — Mark Zuckerberg
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social… — Evgeny Morozov
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? — Virginia Woolf
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my… — Connie Willis
We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if ever we wake, to the silence of God. And then, when we wake to the deep shores… — Annie Dillard
Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things… — Elizabeth Bishop
If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome… — Richard Bach
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed… — Charles Bukowski
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead,… — Kurt Vonnegut
You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that, oil and water were the same as wind… — Raymond Chandler
Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife… — Hunter S. Thompson
He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life… — Philip Pullman
This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus… — E. Nesbit
The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient… — C.S. Lewis
Both the five-year-olds looked at me with bewilderment and a bit of fearful uncertainty. I had a sudden horrifying image of the woman I might… — Elizabeth Gilbert
They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life… — Harper Lee
Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on… — Haruki Murakami
In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a… — Banana Yoshimoto
If you want one thing too much itâ€™s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like… — Larry McMurtry

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