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That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I… — Jerome K. Jerome
Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect… — Carl Jung
But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes,… — Leo Tolstoy
Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and… — Dean Koontz
She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the… — Isabel Allende
Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the… — Aldous Huxley
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once itâ€™s gone â€“ its value is… — Joyce Carol Oates
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when… — J. R. Moehringer
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain â€“ ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
Each person is made of five different elements, she told me. Too much fire and you had a bad temper. That was like my father,… — Amy Tan
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. — Bernard Beckett
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer. — Paulo Coelho
Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. — Arundhati Roy
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no… — Cormac McCarthy
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the… — Thomas Jefferson
When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives… — L. Ron Hubbard
Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure… — Jeff Lindsay
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I… — Banana Yoshimoto

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