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George Orwell quote: "In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external..."
In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body. George Orwell
I sit there in my bed staring at the wall, feeling happy, enjoying the way the wall looks, how pink and how white it is. Pink and white, as far as I’m concerned, have never looked quite so pink and white before. Elizabeth Wurtzel
I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife. Margaret Atwood
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. Oscar Wilde
she swore in good mouth-filling oaths, but never smutty ones, and that was uncommon. She knew the prosody of profanity. . . . she knew the tune, as well as the words. She was not a raving beauty, but she had fine eyes and a Pre-Raphelite air of being too good for this world while at the same time exhibiting much of what this world desires in a woman, and I suppose I gaped at her and behaved clownishly. Robertson Davies
And it's not like you never do anything wrong ever, is it?' said Marcus. 'I mean...' He had to be careful here. He knew he couldn't say too much or even anything at all about the hospital stuff. 'I mean how come I got to know Will in the first place?' Because you threw a bloody great baguette at a duck's head and killed it, basically,' said Will. Nick Hornby
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives. Pat Conroy
For that matter, Odysseus himself might have borrowed a trick or two from the rabbit hero, for he is very old and was never at a loss for a trick to deceive his enemies. Richard Adams
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable. Victor Hugo
Mike Judge quote: "You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think..."
You know, I've never really liked paying bills. I don't think I'm gonna do that, either. Mike Judge
Rumi quote: "The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has..."
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it. For the water has never feared the fire. Rumi
Rumi quote: "That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has..."
That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again Rumi
She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes. Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone. Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind. To comprehend the universe: nor these. Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were... George Byron
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
C. S. Lewis quote: "Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread..."
Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. C. S. Lewis

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