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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. Frances Hodgson Burnett
You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. C. S. Lewis
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower... Joseph Heller
Mark Strand quote: "Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about..."
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. Mark Strand
Cormac McCarthy quote: "You have my whole heart. You always did."
You have my whole heart. You always did. Cormac McCarthy
Arthur Conan Doyle quote: "You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that..."
You remind me of Edgar Allan Poe's Dupin. I had no idea that such individuals did exist out of stories. Arthur Conan Doyle
Yes, I was determined to have a happy Christmas' 'Did you?' 'I think so. I don't remember it much, and that's always a good sign, isn't it? Evelyn Waugh
Then are we not to see the merry young hobbits again?" said Legolas."I did not say so," said Gandalf. "Who knows? Have patience. Go where you must go, and hope! J. R. R. Tolkien
Stephen King quote: "Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before..."
Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow. Stephen King
HIs great talent in life was to be a Good Bloke. He could walk into a room and sit down and everybody would be happy to have him, even if all he ever did was smile, for they imagined behind the mustache, behind the smile it hid, something sterner, more critical and yet, also, tolerant, so that when he smiled they felt themselves approved of and they vied with each other to like him best. Peter Carey
I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore. Neil Young
A young girl, a freshman, I met in a bar in Cambridge my junior year at Harvard told me early one fall that “Life is full of endless possibilities.” I tried valiantly nog to choke on the beer nuts I was chewing while she gushed this kidney stone of wisdom, and I calmly washed them down with the rest of a Heineken, smiled and concentrated on the dart game that was going on in the corner. Needless to say, she did not live to see her sophomore year. That winter, her body was found floating in... Bret Easton Ellis
The leaving him thus did not a little gratify one that was more fond of travelling than of returning home to be buried in his own country; for he used often to say, that the way to heaven was the same from all places, and he that had no grave had the heavens still over him. Thomas More
Nora Roberts quote: "And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on..."
And still she felt more confident at the prospect of taking on the Russian Mafia than she did attending a backyard barbecue. Nora Roberts
That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich. Ernest Hemingway

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