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Oscar Wilde quote: "beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of..."
beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich Oscar Wilde
Clint Eastwood quote: "I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it."
I tried being reasonable, but I didn't like it. Clint Eastwood
Bucky's garage was a two-bay cinder block structure that sat like an island in a sea of cars. New cars, old cars, smashed cars, rusted cars, cars that had signed on for the vital organ program, Janet Evanovich
There's no work so tirin' as danglin' about an' starin' an' not rightly knowin' what you're goin' to do next; and keepin' your face i' smilin' order like a grocer o' market-day for fear people shouldna think you civil enough. George Eliot
Jeffrey Eugenides quote: "It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on..."
It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! Jeffrey Eugenides
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved. Barbara Ehrenreich
They pointed at each other, with starlight burning in their limbs like daggers and icicles and fireflies, and then fell to judging their limbs again, each finding himself intact, hot, excited, stunned, awed, and the other, ah yes, that other over there, unreal, a ghostly prism flashing the accumulated light of distant worlds…. … Now Tomas laughed. “You’re blind!” “I see very well. You are the one who does not see. Ray Bradbury
What moves me so deeply, about this little prince who is sleeping here, is his loyalty to a flower? the image of a rose that shines through his whole being like the flame of a lamp, even when he is asleep..." And I felt him to be more fragile still. I felt the need of protecting him, as if he himself were a flame that might be extinguished by a little puff of wind... Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He addressed the class...in a soft, stupefied, increasingly breathless tone like an astronaut pleading with a mad supercomputer to open an airlock. Michael Chabon
Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means? W. Somerset Maugham
According to your proclivities, you may take a snow-clad Alpine peak, as it rises to the empyrean in radiant majesty, as symbol of man's aspiration to union with the Infinite; or since, if you like to believe that, a mountain range may be thrown up by some violent convulsion in the earth's depths, you may take it as a symbol of the dark and sinister passions of man that lour to destroy him; or, if you want to be in the fashion, you may take it as a phallic symbol. W. Somerset Maugham
Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?' 'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement. David Herbert Lawrence
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to..."
I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got. Laurell K. Hamilton
De Tocqueville's thrust is that it's in the democratic citizen's nature to be like a leaf that doesn't believe in the tree it's part of. David Foster Wallace
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in..."
Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream. Rabindranath Tagore

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