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I don't know. I suppose I should have had a better idea of what I was letting myself in for. Still, the first murder? the farmer? seemed to have been so simple, a dropped stone falling to the lakebed with scarcely a ripple. The second one was also easy, at least at first, but I had no inkling how different it would be. What we took for a docile, ordinary weight (gentle plunk, swift rush to the bottom, dark waters closing over it without a trace) was in fact a depth charge, one that exploded... Donna Tartt
Oscar Wilde quote: "There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized...."
There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt. Oscar Wilde
Maya Angelou quote: "If you're always trying to be Normal you will never know how..."
If you're always trying to be Normal you will never know how amazing you can be. Maya Angelou
All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in... Aiden Wilson Tozer
David Hume quote: "To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential..."
To be a philosophical Sceptic is the first and most essential step towards being a sound, believing Christian. David Hume
Arnold Bennett quote: "There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of..."
There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner. Arnold Bennett
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship. Elie Wiesel
To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It's better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to them when they're 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? Fran Lebowitz
I was jut vamping for time to make a few self-improvements: I knew damn well I'd never be a movie star, it's too hard; and if you're intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. Truman Capote
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable."
If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable. Kurt Vonnegut
Once a person exists, not everything compatible with his overall existence being a net plus can be done, even by those who created him. An existing person has claims, even against those whose purpose in creating him was to violate those claims. Robert Nozick
To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer. Chris Colfer
There was nothing ugly in the small, unprepossessing figure of this emancipated woman, but the expression on her face made a bad impression on the viewer. One felt inclined to ask: "What's the matter? Are you hungry? Bored? Afraid? Why so tense?" Just like Sitnikov, she was always anxious. She spoke and moved in a rather casual, though awkward, manner: she obviously considered herself a good-natured, simple creature; at the same time, no matter what she did, it always seemed that she didn't... Ivan Turgenev
The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past. He cares as little for what will be as for what has been; he cares only for what ought to be. And for my present purpose I specially insist on this abstract independence. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Aldous Huxley quote: "Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature...."
Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life. Aldous Huxley

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