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I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will… — Robert A. Heinlein
You aren't worried are you?" "Why should I be worried? It's just another day in the neighborhood. You know - bombs, fires, people shooting at… — Christine Feehan
He was jingling his keys in the pocket of his coat -- one of those barn coats described as rugged and classic and four hundred… — Maggie Stiefvater
Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as… — John Grisham
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways… — Wendell Berry
One open, one closed. It was no wonder that the first image that came to mind when I thought of either of my sisters was… — Sarah Dessen
A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe. — Rita Rudner
Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a… — Robert Walser
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
I scowled defensively. "My conversations don't usually include the subject of erections." "Too bad," he said. "All the best conversations do. — Lisa Kleypas
Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm not sure if I could tell the differenceâ€”between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that… — Haruki Murakami
Mikeru was still puzzling over Horace's last remark. He frowned. 'Kurokuma, these shenanigans... What are they?' 'Shenanigans are what Rangers do. They usually involve doing… — John Flanagan
And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good… — C.S. Lewis
This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens — Tina Fey
I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually… — Ann Aguirre
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. — Deb Caletti
I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very,… — Maurice Sendak
They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having… — Jeff Lindsay
When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually… — Haruki Murakami

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