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Quotes by Writer
"Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism."
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"Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words."
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"They all went indoors with their new friends, and found rooms so small as none but those who invite from the heart could think capable of accommodating so many."
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"I thank my mother (Ma, you're only second cause you got the dedication), who used to make me write essays whenever I got into trouble, explaining exactly what I'd done and why I'd done it."
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"One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen."
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"Coming down for the thousandth time, I'm perched on the precipice of a billion broken promises. I'm speeding through the intersections of my own broken heartstrings, blowing red lights and ignoring red flags. I'm thinking, 'history repeats itself.' I'm wondering why. The world outside is still happening also."
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"Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights."
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"I really should have died then, Tsukuru often told himself. Then this world, the one in the here and now, wouldn't exist. It was a captivating, bewitching thought. The present world wouldn't exist, and reality would no longer be real. As far as this world was concerned, he would simply no longer exist-just as this world would no longer exist for him."
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"How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words."
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"It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow."
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"The most mediocre of males feels himself a demigod as compared with women."
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"Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms ."
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"I do concentrate to make my soul beautiful more than my Body just for the reason because one day my body will expire but my soul is imperishable."
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"Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake."
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
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"Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions."
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"I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em."
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"We talk what we think but do what we believe."
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"I don't want everyone to like me, I should think less of myself if some people did."
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"Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck."
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"Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake."
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"Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain."
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"Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished-which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time."
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"Poverty is a great evil, but to a woman of education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest.-I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like."
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"Home is where you were conditioned."
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"I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can't be given."
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"I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either."
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