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Jean Genet quote: "Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!"
Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears! Jean Genet
The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before. - "The Bridges of Madison County" Robert James Waller
Emily Dickinson quote: "My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but..."
My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so? Emily Dickinson
I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always figured that you die each day and and each day is a is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you have died a couple thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand. Ray Bradbury
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret. Dean Koontz
The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good. Iris Murdoch
Better watch out said a second voice from somewhere under the Beetle. Don't park those two kraut cars too close together; it's springtime, and they might decide to mate. then Charlie'll be stuck with a garage full of little orange safety cones Mercedes Lackey
probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. John F. Kennedy
College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America. Robert M. Hutchins
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty." 1810-1860, Minister Theodore Parker
Victor Hugo quote: "For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those..."
For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern. Victor Hugo
Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life Rainer Maria Rilke
William Butler Yeats quote: "God guard me from those thoughts men think. In the mind alone."
God guard me from those thoughts men think. In the mind alone. William Butler Yeats
...for now he was in one of those crises when the soul yields a blurred glimpse of all that it enfolds, like an ocean, tempest-torn, uncovering everything from the seaweed in the shallows to the sands of the abyss. Gustave Flaubert
Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses! Michael Chabon

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