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Iain Banks quote: "Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?"

Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?

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In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense. Minoru Yamasaki
Robert Burns quote: "The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend."
The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend. Robert Burns
Shortly afterwards my father told me that he might be going into the Eastern Zone of Germany. At that time my own mind was closer to his than it had ever been before, because he also believed that they are at least trying to build a new world. Klaus Fuchs
Margaret Cho quote: "George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself."
George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself. Margaret Cho
So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or on walls, or gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort. J. R. R. Tolkien
Surely, as a rule, some little bit of moonlight would filter through the clouds, through the clinks in the canopy of trees, and find the ground. Not tonight. Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight-a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold. Stephenie Meyer
George Stephanopoulos quote: "If we can kill Saddam, we should."
If we can kill Saddam, we should. George Stephanopoulos
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did. Sally Field
I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else. Laurell K. Hamilton
Leo Tolstoy quote: "... You conquer me."
... You conquer me. Leo Tolstoy
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does. Samantha Morton
Jack Kerouac quote: "The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's..."
The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. Jack Kerouac
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Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself. Joshua Homme
Michael Shermer quote: "When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not..."
When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. Michael Shermer