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This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone. Chuck Palahniuk
This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think? Cormac McCarthy
This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth! Charles Dickens
This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open. Victor Hugo
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same. Lois McMaster Bujold
This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred... Victor Hugo
Haruki Murakami quote: "This may be the most important proposition revealed by..."
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming. Haruki Murakami
This was in [Orwell's] 1946 'Politics and the English Language,' an essay that despite its date (and its title's basic redundancy) remains the definitive SNOOT statement on Academese. Orwell's famous AE translation of the gorgeous 'I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift' in Ecclesiastes as 'Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but... David Foster Wallace
This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was. W. G. Sebald
This returning to their root is what we call the state of stillness; and that stillness may be called a reporting that they have fulfilled their appointed end. Lao Tzu
Dave Eggers quote: "This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear,..."
This had happened to him before - in an effort to disappear, he had made himself more conspicuous. Dave Eggers
Neal Stephenson quote: "This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”..."
This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?” Juanita shrugs. “What's the difference? Neal Stephenson
Don DeLillo quote: "This is the point of Babette."
This is the point of Babette. Don DeLillo
This is man: a writer of books, a putter-down of words, a painter of pictures, a maker of ten thousand philosophies. He grows passionate over ideas, he hurls scorn and mockery at another's work, he finds the one way, the true way, for himself, and calls all others false--yet in the billion books upon the shelves there is not one that can tell him how to draw a single fleeting breath in peace and comfort. He makes histories of the universe, he directs the destiny of the nations, but he does... Thomas Wolfe
This is fusion, when two people become one. They are so close and so well suited to each other that they blend together. They merge and can't live without each other after that. Danielle Steel

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