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Sue Grafton quote: "Things can fool you sometimes."
Things can fool you sometimes. Sue Grafton
Victor Hugo quote: "A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when..."
A good mayor is a useful person. How can you hold back when you have the chance to do good? Victor Hugo
Salman Rushdie quote: "When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in..."
When we stop believing in the gods we can start believing in their stories. Salman Rushdie
Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know. And even the survivors who have decided to bear witness confirm it in their way: They almost all say that their experience can't be related in words, and yet, as witnesses, they're morally compelled to resort to them. Their silence, except if it is ontologically integral to their disposition, would not help truth triumph. It would only open the road to oblivion and, as one survivor put it, enable the executioner to kill his victims a... Elie Wiesel
So we are steaming along without any landmark; we can't gauge our speed. We are making progress and yet nothing is changing. It's not navigation but dreaming. Albert Camus
Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice? Jeffrey Eugenides
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing. Arundhati Roy
Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty ashes residing somewhere inside of your ass. You've gotta face the music, which is a beautiful island outside, but you can't even bear to look out the window. Anthony Kiedis
Sue Grafton quote: "I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know..."
I may have people lying to me, but since I don't really know the truth, I can't be sure. Sue Grafton
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to..."
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps. Friedrich Nietzsche
Why do you read then?' Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I've got out of the book all that's any use to me and I can't get anything more if I read it a dozen times. ... W. Somerset Maugham
George R. R. Martin quote: "The Wall can stop an army, but not a man alone."
The Wall can stop an army, but not a man alone. George R. R. Martin
Sylvia Day quote: "I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my..."
I want you too much. I want you with me, in my life, in my bed. If i can have that, nothing else matters. Sylvia Day
I can still feel you, Eva. Still taste you. I’ve been hard since you left, through two meetings and one teleconference. You’ve got the advantage, state your demands. Sylvia Day
The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement. Nick Hornby

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