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The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree. Victor Hugo
His great carved wooden head was marked with a black eye that was more yellow than black and from this spectacular bed of bruised flesh the eye itself, sand irritated, bloodshot, as wild as a currawong's, stared out at a landscape in which the tops of fences protruded from windswept sand. Peter Carey
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value R. A. Salvatore
Lloyd Alexander quote: "There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field..."
There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood. Lloyd Alexander
You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal Barbara Kingsolver
William Shakespeare quote: "Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have..."
Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows. William Shakespeare
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet. Jack London
Stephen Fry quote: "Better sexy and racy. Than sexist and racist"
Better sexy and racy. Than sexist and racist Stephen Fry
It ought to be the employer’s ambition as leader to pay than any similar line of business, and it ought to be the workman’s ambition to make it possible Henry Ford
Neil Gaiman quote: "You will learn more from a glorious failure than ever you will..."
You will learn more from a glorious failure than ever you will from something that you never finished. Neil Gaiman
To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father would soon be over. As long as he searched for them he was prepared to be hungry and ill, but now that the search had ended he felt saddened by the memory of all he had been through, and of how much he had changed. He was closer now to the ruined battlefields and this fly-infested truck, to the nine sweet potatoes in the sack below the driver's seat, even in a sense to the detention center, than he... J. G. Ballard
You may have noticed how extremes call to each other, the spiritual to the animal, the caveman to the angel. You never saw a worse case than this. Arthur Conan Doyle
John Fowles quote: "Nice girl, dear boy."Oh . . ." I shrugged. "You know."Most..."
Nice girl, dear boy."Oh . . ." I shrugged. "You know."Most attractive."Cheaper than central heating."I'm sure. John Fowles
We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes. Robert M. Pirsig
How much there is to suffer. When was time enough to pay attention to our lighter emotions? And still I recognize, better than most others who will be resurrected, what blessedness is. Rainer Maria Rilke

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