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Jean Rhys quote: "It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's..."
It's funny, he said, have you ever thought that a girl's clothes cost more than the girl inside them? Jean Rhys
P. G. Wodehouse quote: "He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do."
He looks much more like a lobster than most lobsters do. P. G. Wodehouse
Charles Darwin quote: "An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would ever..."
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would ever touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men. Charles Darwin
He smiled understandingly-much more than understanding. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
It was not until I was over twenty that I realised that my home standard had been unusually high and that actually I was quite as quick or quicker than the average. Inarticulate I shall always be. It is probably one of the causes that have made made me a writer. Agatha Christie
There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms. Jeanette Winterson
Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! Leo Tolstoy
Men, like planets, have both a visible and an invisible history. The astronomer threads the darkness with strict deduction, accounting so for every visible arc in the wanderer's orbit; and the narrator of human actions, if he did his work with the same completeness, would have to thread the hidden pathways of feeling and thought which lead up to every moment of action, and to those moments of intense suffering which take the quality of action--like the cry of Prometheus, whose chained anguish... George Eliot
Milan Kundera quote: "All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a..."
All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others. Milan Kundera
We were careless and wild, and I suppose we could be thought of as a sign of the life the war was being fought to preserve. Anyway, they were more indulgent toward us than at any other time; they snapped at the heels of the seniors, driving and molding and arming them for the war. They noticed our games tolerantly. We reminded them of what peace was like, of lives which were not bound up with destruction. John Knowles
Anatole France quote: "What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare..."
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance? Anatole France
Thomas Hardy quote: "Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the..."
Like a greater than himself, to the critical question at the critical time he did not answer: and they were again silent. Thomas Hardy
...country schooling was little more than a cane-wacking interlude in which boys picked up facts like bruises and the girls scarcely counted at all... Laurie Lee
My name is Jared Howe. I haven't spoken to another human being in more than two years, so I'm sure I must seem...a little crazy to you. Stephenie Meyer
I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did. Ian Fleming

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