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#1

“Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

tags: drama, dramatic, exciting, fantasy, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, intrigue, mystery, past, wit

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#2

“Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.”
― Therisa Peimer, Taming Flame

tags: adventure, cult, death, drama, dystopian, fiction, future, romance, sci-fi

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#3

“Bringing her eyes down again, Catherine found herself gawking at Jake’s perfectly formed, muscular chest and stomach. She felt her cheeks flush when she he noticed that his towel was still parted, showing off a very lean, muscular leg.”
― Diane Merrill Wigginton, A Compromising Position

tags: american-romance, curiosity, drama, hope, joy, love, romance, sadness, uplifting, women-s-adventure

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#4

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done, it is a far, far better rest I that I go to than I have ever known."

A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens”
― Barbara Sontheimer

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#5

“I really like Matilda and that's not a clever book, is it? It's for children. But she's my favourite main character because she comes from an awful family and likes reading, like I do. Those special powers must've made her life a lot easier, though. She wouldn't be working in a pub at thirty-two.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

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#6

“I meditate fourteen hours a day—two hours out of bed and twelve hours in bed. The mortals call it sleeping, but the enlightened are awake. It’s just the body that sleeps.”
― Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

tags: funny-quotes, humorous-quotations, humorous-quotes, humourous, meditation-quotes, satire-fiction, sleep-quotes, witty-quotes

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#7

“It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.”
― Justin Cronin, The City of Mirrors

tags: cosmic, loss, musical-chairs, stoicism

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#8

“I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.”
― Raymond Chandler, Philip Marlowe's Guide to Life

tags: dicks

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#9

“Charlie said that death was beautiful, because people feared death.”
― Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter

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#10

“her smile of understanding and acceptance that said, “All intangibles are forgiven, I accept them and more—your faults, your dips and turns, everything, because our love is a hammer forged at the anvil of God and not even your most foolish, irrational act can break it.” That look.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

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#11

“The vision men call Lilith is formed primarily by their anxiety at what they perceive to be the beauty of a woman's body, a beauty they believe to be at once, far greater and far less than their own.”
― Harold Bloom

tags: attraction, beauty, lilith, psychoanalysis, sexual-anxiety, sexual-psychology

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#12

“You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.'
'And yet it is still extremely funny.”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life

tags: humor, sarcasm

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#13

“Time will explain.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: time

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#14

“Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

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#15

“He loves but little who can say and count in words how much he loves”
― Dante Alighieri

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#16

“She adjusted her body weight and caught his eyes, her gaze shiny and with a tinge of sadness. “My grandmother told me once that the world is filled with ghosts. The longer we live the more ghosts will haunt us.” She paused glancing at her palms. “But they’re here to remind us we are alive. That our hearts beat, blood runs through our veins, we breath air into our lungs.”
― Simon W. Clark, The Russian Ink

tags: binds-us-together, emotions-and-attitude, faith-in-each-other, fiction, keeps-us-strong, protection, spy-thriller

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#17

“Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane – not just insane but totally so – or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to talk; he had drawn Fat out and now knew that Fat was totally insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

tags: honesty, insanity, mental-health, psychiatrist, sanity

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#18

“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”
― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

tags: book, books, face, faces, pages, search, shop, shops, window, windows

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#19

“Always remember, child,’ her first teacher had impressed on her, ‘that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral you down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort.”
― James Clavell, Shogun

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#20

“Nel limbo di Staryje Doroghi mi sentivo sporco, stracciato, stanco, greve, estenuato dall'attesa, eppure giovane e pieno di potenze e rivolto verso l'avvenire.”
― Primo Levi, If This Is a Man • The Truce

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#21

“It seemed marvelous to see life pump through that strange little body of feathers, wordless noises, milk eyes—much as life pumped through me.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

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#22

“Through my own struggles I’ve learned that knowing is something that evolves. What we think we know can be quite far from the truth.”
― Ruta Sepetys, The Fountains of Silence

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#23

“What you know about women,’ replied Maude, ‘could be written in large font on the back of a postage stamp and there’d still be room for the Lord’s Prayer.”
― John Boyne, The Heart's Invisible Furies

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#24

“Krishna is not trying to persuade Arjuna to lead a different kind of life and renounce the world as would a monk or recluse. He tells Arjuna that if he can establish himself in yoga – in unshakable equanimity, profound peace of mind – he will be more effective in the realm of action. His judgment will be better and his vision clear if he is not emotionally entangled in the outcome of what he does.”
― Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, The Bhagavad Gita

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#25

“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. 'Falling in love', characteristically, combs the appearances of the world, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot. Roland was troubled by the idea that the opposite might be true. Finding themselves in a plot, they might suppose it appropriate to behave as though it was that sort of plot.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

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#26

“An image suddenly loomed in his mind: the greenhouse effect. Yes. The Earth is a gigantic greenhouse. With us planted here millions of years ago by aliens. Soon they’ll be back for the harvest.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Handling the Undead

tags: aliens, cattle, death, earth, farming, harvest

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#27

“Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

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#28

“I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: adventure, adventuresome, adventurous, just-do-it, sailing, travel, travels

248 likes

#29

“Bugünün dersi birbirinizi öldürmek; ta ki tek kişi kalana kadar.”
― Koushun Takami

tags: battle-royale, thriller, turkish

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#30

“It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow, mere smoke of opinion, which some had trusted for a cloud that would sprinkle fertilizing rain on their fields. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: diversity, open-mindedness

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