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As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle ('Please read this carefully and send it on Jane') the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages I get from being a bachelor - and, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that. P. G. Wodehouse
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. John Wayne
Studying in countries like China isn't only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It's not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It's also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It's about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world. Michelle Obama
Alice Hoffman quote: "and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp..."
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. Alice Hoffman
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't..."
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive Jorge Luis Borges
Beside Mama, in my own folding chair, with my feet sticking out in front of me, I thought about my own innards. Just a few months before I'd had no idea whether my reproductive equipment worked. There was no evidence. But that week I had become a full-fledged bleeder and was still absorbed by this first change in myself that I had ever noticed. The click and buzz of my synapses kept making the same connection. If you can change, you can also end. Death had always been a theory to me. Now I... Katherine Dunn
Stuart Maxwell told me in a shaky voice that the first time Cheyenne picked him out as her victim for the kissing game, it had been like a nightmare as he'd found himself cornered by the circle of girls, only to see Cheyenne's lips coming closer and closer, until finally the smell of cranberry Kiehl's lip balm had overwhelmed him.'And that's when,' Stuart told me in a horrified voice, 'I knew it was all over. Meg Cabot
The individual's duty is to do what he wants to do, to think whatever he likes, to be accountable to no one but himself, to challenge every idea and every person. Jean-Paul Sartre
James Patterson quote: "I like most of his books. They are so exciting. Cross was my..."
I like most of his books. They are so exciting. Cross was my last book. James Patterson
Jeanette Winterson quote: "It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is."
It doesn't have to be like that but mostly it is. Jeanette Winterson
Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I’ve always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work. Sue Monk Kidd
She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry. “Of course she isn’t!” said Hermione tartly. “I don’t see anyone else gaping at her like an idiot! J. K. Rowling
And he was my friend. Not that he wouldn't kill me if things turned out that way, but he wouldn't like doing it. With humans, what more could you ask for a friend? Stephenie Meyer
Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the inhabitants were bored and more or less happy, but where the weight of illusion was so great that the island sank a little deeper into the river every day. And the island of the future, where the only time was the future, and the inhabitants were planners and strivers, such strivers, said Ulises, that they were likely to end up devouring one another. Roberto Bolano
T. S. Eliot quote: "the evening lay out against the sky. Like a patient, etherised..."
the evening lay out against the sky. Like a patient, etherised on a table T. S. Eliot

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