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Most houses were crammed with immovable objects in their proper places, and each object told you what to do - here you ate, here you slept, here you sat. I tried to imagine carpets, wardrobes, pictures, chairs, a sewing machine, in these gaping, smashed-up rooms. I was pleased by how irrelevant, how puny such objects now appeared. Ian Mcewan
Jodi Picoult quote: "These days it seemed like the words between them were there..."
These days it seemed like the words between them were there only to outline the silences. Jodi Picoult
The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood. Alice Hoffman
Well, suppose intelligent people don't believe, but that's from intelligence, and you, I say, squirt that you are, what do you understand about God? You were taught by some student, and if he'd taught you to light icon lamps, you'd do it. Fyodor Dostoevsky
I shall sustain a massive erection, that’s what, and I shan’t be answerable for the consequences. Some kind of ejaculation is almost bound to ensue and if either of you were to become pregnant I should never forgive myself. Stephen Fry
Erma Bombeck quote: "It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that..."
It's frightening to wake up one morning and discover that while you were asleep you went out of style. Erma Bombeck
There is no glory in being a featherbed soldier, a man bedecked with gorgeous medals, but never beautified by a scar, or ennobled by a wound. All that you ever hear of such a soldier is that his spurs jingle on the pavement as he walks. There is no history for this carpet knight. He is just a dandy. He never smelled gunpowder in battle in his life. If he did, he fetched out his cologne to kill the offensive odor. Oh, if we could be wise enough to choose, even were as wise as the Lord... Charles Spurgeon
All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery. Jane Austen
The thing to do was to act just like others acted, live like they lived, and while they were not looking, do what you wanted. Richard Wright
Tom Robbins quote: "Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and..."
Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead. Tom Robbins
Miley Cyrus quote: "wan i say u ever there i didnt mean to stare but my mind was..."
wan i say u ever there i didnt mean to stare but my mind was ever were i wanna know you! Miley Cyrus
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were..."
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure of the epoch in which they lived. Ayn Rand
Captain Jim thought women were delightful creatures, who ought to have the vote, and everything else they wanted, bless their hearts; but he did not believe they could write. L. M. Montgomery
The jet's movement and trail seem incisionish, as if white meat behind the blue were exposed and widening in the wake of the blade. David Foster Wallace

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