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Tori Amos quote: "When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each..."
When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly. Tori Amos
John C. Maxwell quote: "If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re..."
If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading… John C. Maxwell
Henry James quote: "She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her..."
She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur. Henry James
Shitbucket, hellfire, damnation, and son of a mother bitch," said Rosaleen, laying into each word like it was sweet potatoes on her tongue. Sue Monk Kidd
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors. Milan Kundera
I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight... Camilo Jose Cela
There's a lot of people saying we'd be better off dead. I don't feel like a satan but I guess I am...keep on rockin' the free world. Neil Young
Emile Zola quote: "Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes..."
Don't go looking at me like that because you'll wear your eyes out. Emile Zola
Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic... Dave Eggers
I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass. Willa Cather
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. Graham Greene
But it gradually seemed to me that I'd made myself believe something that wasn't true. I'd made myself believe that I was fine and happy and fulfilled on my own without the love of anyone else. Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit... And I thought: am I really going... Philip Pullman
In no time the perennial borders were thick with rosy-pink foxglove and cream-colored lilies, each of which hung like a pendant, collecting dew on its satiny petals. Alice Hoffman
Margaret Atwood quote: "a few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like..."
a few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like leather tongues. Margaret Atwood
Pat Conroy quote: "The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines..."
The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl. Pat Conroy

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