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There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can see through walls to another dimension that you'd forgotten or… — Nicole Krauss
How can you do the right thing when you can't figure out what that is? When all you have before you are choices in various… — Neal Shusterman
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term… — Jared Diamond
New teachers were just a part of life, for a few days after one arrived, squawks of interest were emitted from various corners, but then… — Meg Wolitzer
The last time I went back to a girl's house for an impromptu house party I spent most of the night straightening out rugs, putting… — Jon Richardson
I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. — Fernando Pessoa
The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the… — Terry Pratchett
The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin. — Wallace Stevens
No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls… — Elif Safak
Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. — John Green
Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks,… — Desiderius Erasmus
You must be Warden Ramirez." This is the part where I got nervous. Ramirez loved women. Ramirez never shut up about women. Well, he never… — Jim Butcher
Humans have various ways of coping with extended stress, and one is the anticipation of a better time. Here, as with retribution, there is often… — Robert Wright
These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we… — Stevie Smith
The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition… — Alan Watts
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket. — Alan Bennett
Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once youâ€™re in, the workers… — Neil Gaiman
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I… — D. H. Lawrence
As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize… — Charles Bukowski

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