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“I switched to thoughts of the play. It was by far the healthiest item to concentrate on. Rehearsals were only days away; there is something wildly exciting about a company assembling for the first time on stage. There is also something strangely sexy about it. I can't pin it down, there just is.”
― James Kirkwood, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead

tags: theatre

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“Hope is a desperate man's currency.”
― Paul Tremblay, The Little Sleep

tags: poignant

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#3

“People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

tags: relationships

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“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

tags: james-bond, principles

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#5

“In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

tags: clever, poignant

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#6

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”
― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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#7

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: knowledge, memory

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#8

“Despair has its own calms.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

tags: dracula

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#9

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
― Lewis Carroll

tags: alice, humor, inspirational, philosophy-of-life, psychological, yesterday

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#10

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

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#11

“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
― Lewis Carroll

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#12

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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#13

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education, fashion

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#14

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: sin

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#15

“Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: devil, evil, trick

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#16

“We're talking about a tentacled flying lamp fucker, Dave. What are you prepared to call unlikely?”
― David Wong, John Dies at the End

tags: humor

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#17

“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.”
― Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

tags: psychology

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#18

“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

tags: humor, semantics, suspicion

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#19

“And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.”
― Ian Fleming

tags: butterfly, games, james-bond

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#20

“They had a table near the rail round the huge floor. Bond was spellbound. He found many of the girls very beautiful. The music hammered its way into his pulse until he almost forgot what he was there for.”
― Ian Fleming

tags: james-bond, jazz, music

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#21

“Bond looked at the beautiful day and smiled. And no man, not even Mr. Big, would have liked the expression on his face.”
― Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die

tags: james-bond, ominous

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#22

“It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled at often, the big man had smiled at me not a minute since. And yet I say: it was the first smile, because it was the first that ever went straight into me like a needle too thin to be seen.”
― Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie

tags: animals, carol-birch, menagerie, smile

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“Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of mad round eyes, crimson breasts that beat against bars, wings that flapped against their neighbours, blood red, royal blue, gypsy yellow, grass green. The birds were crammed along perches. Macaws hung upside down here and there, batting their white eyes, and small green parrots flittered above our heads in drifts. A hot of cockatoos looked down from on high over the shrill madness, high crested, creamy breasted. The screeching was like laughter in hell.”
― Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie

tags: animals, birds, hell, menagerie, parrots

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“It was then I truly realised the whale is no more a fish than I am. So much blood. This was not like the fish on the quay, fresh caught, lying flipping and flopping, death on a simmer. This was a fierce, boiling death. She died thrashing blindly in a slick of gore, full of pain and fury, gnashing her jaws, beating her tail, spewing lumps of slime and half-digested fish that fell stinking about us. It was vile. So much strength dies slowly.”
― Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie

tags: death, pain, strength, whales

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#25

“A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

tags: cockney, devil, sailor, sea-wolf

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“If they will only hold their hands until the season is over, he promises them a royal carnival, when all grudges can he settled and the survivors may toss the non-survivors overboard and arrange a story as to how the missing men were lost at sea.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

tags: death, fighting, murder, sailors, sea

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#27

“Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

tags: lion, nobility, roar

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#28

“The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain
in the world had found a voice”
― H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau

tags: pain

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#29

“I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon the floor.”
― H. G. Wells

tags: aniticipation, hammock, island-of-dr-moreau

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“The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was at its full, and very bright, riding through the empty blue sky.”
― H. G. Wells

tags: island, island-of-dr-moreau, moon, moonlight, nature, night

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