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Solomon counted out the coins very slowly and in silence, and then said, "Are you certain you weren't born Jewish?"No," said Dodger. "I've looked. I'm not, but thanks for the compliment. Terry Prachett
The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law. James Clavell
You want to do something about it - take action, scream at them, tell them they're idiots - but you can't. Being on the fringe is the most disempowering feeling. You get so used to the world being a certain way, there seems to be no escape from it. Jodi Picoult
Julian Barnes quote: "To own a certain book-one you had chosen yourself-was to..."
To own a certain book-one you had chosen yourself-was to define yourself. Julian Barnes
As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful. Norman Maclean
This cancer of the mind which consists of thinking all too sadly that certain things ‘are,’ while others, which well might be, ‘are not. Andre Breton
If I stand alone, It does not mean, I am any less a Human, If my arms do not hold another, It does not mean, They are incapable of holding, If my tongue is silent, And never speaks the words of Love, It does not mean, That it will be mute, When the time comes, That the words can sincerely be spoken. And just because the World, Has not yet introduced, The one that will share my Life, It certainly does not mean, That I am incapable, Of Loving. Javan
Terry Prachett quote: "Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about..."
Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face. Terry Prachett
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me. A. Whitney Brown
I went into the kitchen ten minutes back. The cat was sitting on the mat." Beale's narrative style closely resembled that of a certain book I had read in my infancy. I wish I could remember its title. It was a well-written book. P. G. Wodehouse
Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind Anne Sexton
They had been corrupted by money, and he had been corrupted by sentiment. Sentiment was the more dangerous, because you couldn’t name its price. A man open to bribes was to be relied upon below a certain figure, but sentiment might uncoil in the heart at a name, a photograph, even a smell remembered. Graham Greene
Our culture is not unacquainted with the idea of food as a spiritually loaded commodity. We're just particular about which spiritual arguments we'll accept as valid for declining certain foods. Generally unacceptable reasons: environmental destruction, energy waste, the poisoning of workers. Acceptable: it's prohibited by a holy text. Set down a platter of country ham in front of a rabbi, an imam, and a Buddhist monk, and you may have just conjured three different visions of damnation. Guests... Barbara Kingsolver
Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission. Joyce Carol Oates
...sanity involves a certain measure of impersonation, not simply for the benefit of husband and servants but for the sake, first and foremost, of one's own convictions. Michael Cunningham

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