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Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile, and best built man they had ever seen, but even though they were looking at him there was no room for him in their imagination. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Clarence Budington Kelland quote: "My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me..."
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. Clarence Budington Kelland
And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes?" --Rick"Indeed I can. What am I but another dreamer, Rick?" --Guardian Charles Dickens
Janet Evanovich quote: "Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt..."
Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil. Janet Evanovich
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy does not reserve a plot for weeds Dag Hammarskjold
Gustave Flaubert quote: "And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled..."
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. Gustave Flaubert
If someone were to ask me for a short cut to sensuality, I would suggest he go shopping for a used 427 Shelby-Cobra. But it is only fair to warn you that of the 300 guys who switched to them in 1966, only two went back to women. Mort Sahl
Today I'm out wandering, turning my skullinto a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent man, who doesn't know what he's about to do! Rumi
Jean Cocteau quote: "Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo"
Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo Jean Cocteau
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate & special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the suposition that every child is an idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas, if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself... Helen Keller
In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl. James Joyce
As and general rule,'he had once said,'people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or, if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.'-Athos Alexander Dumas
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked... David Foster Wallace
Corrie Ten Boom quote: "And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out..."
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive. Corrie Ten Boom
If you confront anyone who has lied with the truth, he will usually admit it - often out of sheer surprise. It is only necessary to guess right to produce your effect. Agatha Christie

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