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Peace. That's what salaam means. Peace unto you."The words brought forth an echo from Ender's memory. His mother's voice reading to him softly, when he was very young....The kiss, the word, the peace were with him still. I am only what I remember, and Alai is my friend in a memory so intense that they can't tear him out. Like Valentine, the strongest memory of all. Orson Scott Card
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. Umberto Eco
Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of ghoul, feeding in the charnel house of decayed literature."From "The Adventure of the German Student Washington Irving
But let me begin with a statement of my own passionate and indignant belief--I do not care one goddamned thing about how James Dickey conducted his personal life. I care everything about what this man wrote on blank sheets of paper when he sat alone probing the extremities of imagination. Pat Conroy
Sirius's gaunt face broke out into the first true smile Harry had seen upon it. The difference it made was startling, as though a person ten years younger were shining through the starved mask; for a moment he was recognizable as the man who had laughed at Harry's parents' wedding. J. K. Rowling
Poul Anderson quote: "A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose,..."
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort. Poul Anderson
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Fraugh? cried the sleeper, as though he suddenly understood all."
Fraugh? cried the sleeper, as though he suddenly understood all. Kurt Vonnegut
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all-"
I know myself," he cried, "but that is all- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jules Verne quote: "A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so..."
A true Englishman doesn't joke when he is talking about so serious a thing as a wager. Jules Verne
Paul Auster quote: "All children are love children, he said, but only the best..."
All children are love children, he said, but only the best ones are ever called that. Paul Auster
William Blake quote: "Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to..."
Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans William Blake
Holy bejeezus,” Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. “This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn’t have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it’s filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated. Janet Evanovich
look'n for a job?" this is when the truck driver asks joad what he is doing and i think it indecates that this story revolves around a very hard time John Steinbeck
There was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by the end of it."What do you mean?" cried the chaotic Gregory. "What did I promise you?"A very entertaining evening," said Syme, and he made a military salute with his sword-stick as the steamboart slid away. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Robert Frost quote: "The question that he frames in all but words is what to make..."
The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing. Robert Frost

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