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Where is the line? We're taught to stand up for ourselves; we're taught to stand up for others we care about. But all of a sudden, there's a new line drawn by the law. You sit back, it says, and let us deal with this. Jodi Picoult
when i say i'll murder my baby's mother, maybe i wanted to but i didn't. Anybody who takes it literally is 10 times sicker than i am. Kim Mathers
Sometimes the newer kids who won’t even let him near them come in and set the resistance on the shoulder-pull at a weight greater than their own weight. The guru on the towel dispenser just sits there and smiles and doesn’t say anything. They hunker, then, and grimace, and try to pull the bar down, but, like, lo: the overweighted shoulder-pull becomes a chin-up. Up they go, their own bodies, toward the bar they’re trying to pull down. Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of... David Foster Wallace
Let him who reads forgive the intrusion of a dream into a history of fact. But it came so home to me—I saw it all so clear in a moment, as it were; and, besides, who shall say what proportion of fact, past, present, or to come, may lie in the imagination? What is imagination? Perhaps it is the shadow of the intangible truth, perhaps it is the soul's thought. H. Rider Haggard
John Steinbeck quote: "And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we..."
And then we take a soldier and put murder in his hands and we say to him, "Use it well, use it wisely. John Steinbeck
It's simply the case that as I get older, I seem every day to give a little bit less of a fuck what people think of or say about me. Michael Chabon
Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse. David Eddings
It must be particularly borne in mind, that Mahomet did not profess to set up a new religion ; but to restore that derived in the earliest times from God himself. " We follow," says the Koran, " the religion of Abraham the orthodox, who was no idolater. We believe in God and that which hath been sent down to us, and that which hath been sent down unto Abraham and Ishmael, and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto... Washington Irving
H. G. Wells quote: "But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-''Are all very..."
But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-''Are all very well for common people. H. G. Wells
Arthur Golden quote: "I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless."
I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless. Arthur Golden
if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart. Jane Austen
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. Henry David Thoreau
We get a lot of the sky is falling on the weather reports, so when something big does hit, people never expect it. If it's not as bad as the reports predicted, we complain. If it's worse than expected, we complain. If it's just as bad as predicted, we complain about that, too, because we'll say that the reports are wrong so often, there was no way to know they'd be right this time. It just gives people something to complain about. Nicholas Sparks
Tom Stoppard quote: "He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with..."
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps. Tom Stoppard
Now, like, I’m President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? I bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don’t want any of that. George W. Bush

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