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Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up. John Grisham
Like the rabbi with the red circle, she should have said "no" to everything. She should have become a raven. She didn't understand that every word the judge said was a trap, in that every word she said could easily be a stone used to shut her into that trap. Alice Hoffman
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In aninstant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. Butif you close your eyes, that point of light stays with you, justbarely for a few moments. Haruki Murakami
Like a lot of people, I’ve always enjoyed commenting on strangers’ outfits. Unlike a lot of people, I now had a new megaphone to do it with. And, let me tell you, commenting on people’s hilarious clothing choices through a megaphone makes it so much better. Demetri Martin
Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus we should do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World. Black Elk
Jodi Picoult quote: "Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for..."
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you Jodi Picoult
C. S. Lewis quote: "Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions..."
Like all philosophers, Aristotle gives words the definitions which will be most useful for his own purpose C. S. Lewis
Pat Conroy quote: "Like everything else, love's not worth much without some..."
Like everything else, love's not worth much without some action to back it up. Pat Conroy
Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from... Norman Maclean
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget..."
Like tourists huffing and puffing to reach the peak we forget the view on the way up. Friedrich Nietzsche
Like a wave that has been building it's strength over a thousand miles of ocean, and which makes little stir in the deep water, but which, when it reaches the shallows rears itself high up into the sky, terrifying the shore dwellers, before crashing down on land with irresistible power - so Iorek Byrnison rose up against Iofur, exploding upward from his firm footing on the dry rock and slashing with a ferocious left hand at the exposed jaw of Iofur Raknison. Philip Pullman
Like so many men he had found that he had only one or two ideas - that his little collection of pamphlets now in its fiftieth German edition contained the germ of all he would ever think or know. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Oscar Wilde quote: "Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his..."
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners. Oscar Wilde
Like everyone who possesses something precious in order to know what would happen if he ceased for a moment to possess it, he had detached the precious object from his mind, leaving, as he thought, everything else in the same state as when it was there. But the absence of one part from a whole is not only that, it is not simply a partial lack, it is a derangement of all the other parts, a new state which it was impossible to foresee in the old. Marcel Proust
Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves, or figments of their imagination—indeed, everything and anything except me. Ralph Ellison

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