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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted. — Emily Dickinson
He tries to peel the image from the sticky yellow backing, to show her the next time he sees her, but it clings stubbornly, refusing… — Jhumpa Lahiri
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it. This… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world. — Joseph Campbell
Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine. — Jeanette Winterson
Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but… — Pope Benedict XVI
AND what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,… — James Russell Lowell
No man knows what he can do until he tries. — Carter G. Woodson
I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were. If you saw one you'll know what I mean. Remember after… — John Steinbeck
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good.… — John Irving
If one tries to navigate unknown waters one runs the risk of shipwreck — Albert Einstein
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. — Simone de Beauvoir
Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself. — Michael Chabon
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs… — Michael Crichton
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. — A A Milne
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if… — Agatha Christie
Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get… — David Foster Wallace
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house. — Saddam Hussein
In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject… — Susan Juby
I feel something very small growing inside me as I look at her, and I realize in one absolutely clear moment that I don't like… — Jenny Downham
My mother is a big fan of precision, and tries her best to maintain it. Unfortunately, her own incompetence gets in the way. Dinner is… — Gregory Galloway
There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in… — Madeleine Albright
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and… — Michel Foucault
Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine… — George Orwell

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