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"Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations."
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"One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted."
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"Oh, my sweet summer child," Old Nan said quietly, "what do you know of fear?Fear is for the winter, my little lord, when the snows fall a hundred feetdeep and the ice wind comes howling out of the north. Fear is for the longnight, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little childrenare born and live and die all in darkness while the direwolves grow gaunt andhungry, and the white walkers move through the woods."
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"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
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Personal Development
"The tradeoff between what you pay and what you receive may hardly make sound calculations in life situations), but survival has a cost."
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"We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival."
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"The doctor of the future will be oneself."
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"Watch your back, little wolf, they say. Enemies arise from unexpected places."
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"The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it."
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"The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities."
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"How you feel about marrying me?' he asked in my ear."
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"But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep."
Romance
"The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history."
Art
"The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds."
Romance
"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up."
Romance
"She writes like an angel, it says of Laura on the back of one of the editions of The Blind Assassin. An American edition, as I recall, with gold scrollwork on the cover: they set a lot of store by angels in those parts. In point of fact angels don't write much. They record sins and the names of the dammed and the saved, or they appear as disembodied hands and scribble warnings on walls. Or they deliver messages, few of which are good news: God be with you is not an unmixed blessing."
Religion
"I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children."
Realism
"I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman."
Gender
"Whatever it was, she knew she would not be blamed for it, she was blameless. But what use had that been to her in the past, to be blameless? So at the same time she felt guilty, and as if she was about to be punished."
Psychology
"They seemed to be able to choose. We seemed to be able to choose, then. We were a society dying of too much choice."
Society
"After they had skated around the pond several times, my father asked my mother to marry him. I expect he did it awkwardly, but awkwardness in men was a sign of sincerity then."
Romance
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