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There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie. Samuel Beckett
Then Pa looked straight at Laura and said, 'You girls keep away from the camp. When you go walking. don't go near where the men are working, and you be sure you're back here before they come in for the night. There's all kinds of rough men working on the grade and using rough language, and the less you see and hear of them the better. Now remember, Laura. And you too, Carrie.' Pa's face was very serious.'Yes, Pa' Laura promised, and Carrie almost whispered , 'Yes, Pa.' Carrie's eyes were... Laura Ingalls Wilder
Roger Caras quote: "Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest..."
Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around. Roger Caras
Victor Hugo quote: "She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact..."
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from teh fact that her little bed was very white. Victor Hugo
The normal is that which nobody quite is. If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it. Robert Anton Wilson
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed. Leo Tolstoy
Gustave Flaubert quote: "You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to..."
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything Gustave Flaubert
William Gibson quote: "Secrets...are the very root of cool."
Secrets...are the very root of cool. William Gibson
James Hilton quote: "It's a very remarkable story."Remarkable's a well-chosen word...."
It's a very remarkable story."Remarkable's a well-chosen word. It doesn't give you away. James Hilton
I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it... And the ray was the Guardian Angel of the mote: not a thing interposed between God and the creature, but God's very attention itself, personalized... This is a finite parallel to the Infinite. As the love of the Father and Son (who are infinite and... J. R. R. Tolkien
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable Ben Elton
On page 607, alluding to the end of my first marriage (and carefully remembering to state that that's none of his business), he very sweetly says that I 'might leave a wife, but not a friend.' Nice try. Neat smear. But he shouldn't be so sure.... Christopher Hitchens
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sometimes she'd go a whole day without thinking of him or missing him. Why not? She had quite a full life, and really, he'd often been hard to deal with and hard to live with. A project, the Yankee oldtimers like her very own Dad might have said. And then sometimes a day would come, a gray one (or a sunny one) when she missed him so fiercely she felt empty, not a woman at all anymore but just a dead tree filled with cold November blow. She felt like that now, felt like hollering his name and... Stephen King
Leo Tolstoy quote: "A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of..."
A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul. Leo Tolstoy

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