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The real cocktail party conversation would probably go something like this:"Actually, I have a degree in geography."Geography? Wow, I'm terrible with maps. I bet YOU know all your state capitals, though!"(Geographer's smile freezes, left eye starts to twitch uncontrollably.) Ken Jennings
George R. R. Martin quote: "I would choose freedom over comfort every time."
I would choose freedom over comfort every time. George R. R. Martin
Conseil: If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science. Ned Land: Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in the interest of the kitchen. Jules Verne
Stephen King quote: "If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be..."
If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all. Stephen King
Antonin Artaud quote: "There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a..."
There are those who go to the theatre as they would go to a brothel Antonin Artaud
Laurell K. Hamilton quote: "I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced..."
I hated missing the end of anything. I was always convinced that the bit I'd miss would be the best part. Laurell K. Hamilton
She looked at Will with a direct glance, full of delighted confidence."You approve of my going away for years, then, and never coming here again till I have made myself of some mark in the world?" said Will, trying hard to reconcile the utmost pride with the utmost effort to get an expression of strong feeling from Dorothea. She was not aware how long it was before she answered. She had turned her head and was looking out of the window on the rose-bushes, which seemed to have in them the... George Eliot
Oedipa resolved to pull in at the next motel she saw, however ugly, stillness and four walls having at some point become preferable to this illusion of speed, freedom, wind in your hair, unreeling landscape—it wasn’t. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain. But were Oedipa some single... Thomas Pynchon
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives In the valley of its making where executives. Would never want to tamper, flows on south. From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs, Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening, a mouth. W. H. Auden
The heart wants what the heart wants," she says, somewhat cryptically. I purse my lips in disapproval. "You'd think the heart would know better. Candace Bushnell
It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time-now, too, I suppose-actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness. Gore Vidal
What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost. Jack Kerouac
I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you particularly like the man?” he muttered, at his own image; “why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like; you know that. Ah, confound you! What a change you have made in yourself! A good reason for taking to a man, that he shows you what you have fallen away from, and what you might have been! Change places with him, and would you have been looked at by those blue eyes as he was, and commiserated by that agitated face as he was? Come on, and... Charles Dickens
Anybody who does not feel that he would be much happier were he only permitted to understand and obey the commandments of Jesus in a straightforward literal way, and e. g. surrender all his possessions at his bidding rather than cling to them, has no right to this paradoxical interpretation of Jesus' words. We have to hold the two together in mind all the time. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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