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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. H. G. Wells
Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, after that Tyler's pushing a gun in my mouth and saying, the first step to eternal life is you have to die. Chuck Palahniuk
I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do...and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Alison Bechdel quote: "If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind..."
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. Alison Bechdel
As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs...The way I write is who I am, or have become... Joan Didion
George Bernard Shaw quote: "I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine..."
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. George Bernard Shaw
Clive Barker quote: "Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re..."
Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous. Clive Barker
Albert Einstein quote: "The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the..."
The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. Albert Einstein
After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. George Eliot
Neil Gaiman quote: "People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that..."
People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. Neil Gaiman
Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to. Kenneth Grahame
Peter Cook quote: "I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat..."
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly Peter Cook
L. M. Montgomery quote: "Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow..."
Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change! L. M. Montgomery
Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted. Ayn Rand
To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe. Ernest Hemingway

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