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But don't forget who you really are. And I'm not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even… — Louis Sachar
Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half… — Isaac Asimov
[Six principles that make for a good story:] 1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political-social-economic nature; 2. total objectivity; 3. truthful descriptions of persons… — Anton Chekhov
Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands… — Josef Pieper
Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan… — Alistair Maclean
Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of… — Charlie Chaplin
I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much… — Jane Austen
I realize the odds, and science, are against me. But science is not the total answer; this I know, this I have learned in my… — Nicholas Sparks
And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and… — James Patterson
The tune was wailing and mournful, almost flagrantly so, and the total effect was of a heartbroken piccolo being parted forever from its bagpipe lover. — Peter S. Beagle
Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how… — Sarah Dessen
Have you guys been playing in toxic waste again?" Fang asked severely, putting his hands on his hips. Nudge giggled. "No." "Been bitten by a… — James Patterson
Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time. — Lorrie Moore
You could have gotten a car with GPS," Total said helpfully. Yes," I said "Or we could have brought along a dog that doesn't talk."… — James Patterson
Now that system has weakened to the point he and his worst disciples are able to be free. He wants total mayhem and bloodshed. Most… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
What is ridiculous about human beings, Doctor,' the prince said, 'is actually their total incapacity to be ridiculous — Thomas Bernhard
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be… — Raymond E. Feist
With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint. — Sarah Dessen
Total?" I called. He looked up alertly, then ran over to me, small pink tongue hanging out. Total?" I said when he was close. "Can… — James Patterson
What? she said once to herself, and then once aloud, What? She felt a total displacement, like a spinning globe brought to a sudden halt… — Jonathan Safran Foer
But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My… — Jenny Downham
The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to… — Albert Camus
To the Sabbath! To the Sabbath!' they cried. 'On to the Witches' Sabbath!" Up and down that narrow hall they danced, the women on each… — Algernon Blackwood
(Actually now I’m remembering that the goodbye chow isn’t spelled that way. It’s ciao or something weird like that. It’s Italian, right? But I’m not… — Wendelin Van Draanen

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