"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

Taylor Swift, American Musician

Being, Cause, School

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

Nicole Appleton, Canadian Musician

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

Will Friedle, American Actor

Being, Games

"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."

Malin Akerman, Swedish Actress

Being, Favorite

"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."

Ryan Gosling, Canadian Actor

Being,

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Being, Exercise

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

Billy Bragg, British Musician

Being, Job

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

Gloria Steinem, American Activist

Being, First, Will, Woman

"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

Joseph Bologna, American Actor

Being, Books, Day, Want

"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

Alex Grey, American Artist

Being, Consciousness, Identity, Now

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"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong."

Memory

"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."

Enjoyment

"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."

Charm

"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."

Nature

"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."

Age

"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme."

Love

"He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

"Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line."

"I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are."

"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

"Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood."

"I get up in the morning, do my e-mail, I check my e-mails all day. I'll go online and I'll buy my books at Amazon.com, but I don't want to buy all of them because I want to go to Duttons and I want to buy books from another human being."

"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation."

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"I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and wrong."

"It's very silly, she said, "but I go on with it in spite of myself. I'm afraid I'm too easily pleased; no novel is so silly I can't read it."

"She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation."

"To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him."

"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."

"The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have."

"The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master."

"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."

"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme."

"He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy."