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Shoes would interfere with her conversation, for she constantly addresses the ground under her feet. Asking forgiveness. Owning, disowning, recanting, recharting a hateful course of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral but keep the… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond… — Douglas Adams
The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven. The Bible is the product of man, my dear. Not of God. The Bible did not… — Dan Brown
The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to… — Orson Scott Card
She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and… — Toni Morrison
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a… — Susan Sontag
Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's… — Junot Diaz
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His… — Terry Pratchett
Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality,… — Salman Rushdie
Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they… — John Irving
Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through. — Terry Pratchett
Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen. — Terry Pratchett
I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they… — Hannah Arendt
Witness testimony is always flawed. It's better than circumstantial evidence, sure, but people aren't camcorders; they don't record every action and reaction, and the very… — Jodi Picoult
There are two versions to every poem â€“ the crying version and the straight version — Galway Kinnell
I am what some would say 'holy, and wholly other than you.' The problem is that many folks try to grasp some sense of who… — William P. Young
From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this… — Russell Brand
Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are… — Dean Koontz

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