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Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do. John Mayer
There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it. Malcolm Gladwell
Wallace Stegner quote: "In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the..."
In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game. Wallace Stegner
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph. Robert Browning
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again. Arthur Conan Doyle
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. Bram Stoker
I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means i ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. Milan Kundera
Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes? In perversion (which is the realm of textual pleasure) there are no "erogenous zones" (a foolish expression, besides); it is intermittence, as psychoanalysis has so rightly stated, which is erotic: the intermittence of skin flashing between two articles of clothing (trousers and sweater), between two edges (the open-necked shirt, the glove and the sleeve); it is this flash itself which seduces, or rather: the staging of an... Roland Barthes
Truly, this earth is a trophy cup for the industrious man. And this rightly so, in the service of natural selection. He who does not possess the force to secure his Lebensraum in this world, and, if necessary, to enlarge it, does not deserve to possess the necessities of life. He must step aside and allow stronger peoples to pass him by. Adolf Hitler
You don't speak much, do you?" ter Borcht said, circling him slowly. Fittingly, Fang said nothing. Vhy do you let a girl be de leader?" ter Borcht asked, a calculating look in his eye. She's the tough one," Fang said. Dang right, I thought proudly. Is dere anysing special about you?" asked ter Borcht. "Anysing vorth saving?"Fang pretended to think, gazing up at the ceiling. "Besides my fashion sense? I play a mean harmonica. James Patterson
Stephen King quote: "You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right..."
You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing. Stephen King
How absurd these words are, such as beast and beast of prey. One should not speak of animals in that way. They may be terrible sometimes, but they're much more right than men...They're never in any embarrassment. They always know what to do and how to behave themselves. They don't flatter and they don't intrude. They don't pretend. They are as they are, like stones or flowers or stars in the sky. Herman Hesse
In the art of literature there are two contending parties. Those who aim to tell stories that are more or less well thought out, and those who aim at beautiful language, beauty of form. This contest may last a very long time; each side has a fifty-fifty chance. Only the poet can rightfully demand that verse be beautiful and nothing but. Paul Gauguin
Alice Hoffman quote: "I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came..."
I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either. Alice Hoffman
Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience’s sake. Barack Obama

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