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I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best-

Herman Melville  Famous Quote

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The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.

William Faulkner  Famous Quote

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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

Ray Bradbury  Famous Quote

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Then said Littleheart son of Bronweg: ·'Know then that Tuor was a man who dwelt in very ancient days in that land of the North called Dor-lómin or The Land of Shadows and of the Eldar the Noldoli know it best' .

J.R.R. Tolkien  Famous Quote

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You've got no cause to hurt me, she said. - I know. But I gave my word. - Your word? - Yes. We're at the mercy of the dead here. In this case your husband. - That dont make no sense. - I'm afraid it does

Cormac McCarthy  Famous Quote

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FORD: That's right - and you said, when you've done something unforgiveable, forgive yourself, and that's what I've done, and it's done.

David Mamet  Famous Quote

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Excusatio Non Petita, Acusatio Manifesta.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca  Famous Quote

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Had he said anything but what he said, had I been given the chance to change my mind, had he told me how much I was needed, had he tried to convince me that there was some attestable humanity in all of this, I would have stayed.

E. L. Doctorow  Famous Quote

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Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am I not A fly like thee? Or are thou not A man like me?

William Blake  Famous Quote

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We will not ever know ourselves again. Like the light that moves between the bars of light we sometimes called death, we , too, will have flowered, even with such unquenchable flames as these.

Paul Auster  Famous Quote

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After so many lonely years, I know what life & love may be. Now, if I sleep, I shall sleep fulfilled.

Bertrand Russell  Famous Quote

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An unidentified man in nailhead denim was fished out of the Chicago River, wrapped in chains locked to a Duesenberg hood ornament.

David Mamet  Famous Quote

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That's my job, to forge the blade. To sharpen it. To use it without mercy or conscience. To be the truth in a place where everybody lies.

Michael Connelly  Famous Quote

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The trick if you are sitting at the defense table is to be patient. To wait. Not just for any lie. But for the one you can grab on to and forge like hot iron into a sharpened blade. You then use that blade to rip the case open and spill its guts on the floor.

Michael Connelly  Famous Quote

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Extensive conquests, when pursued, must be the ruin of every free government

David Hume  Famous Quote

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Vendrán más años malos y nos harán más ciegos. Vendrán más años ciegos y nos harán más malos. Vendrán más años tristes y nos harán más fríos y nos harán más secos y nos harán más torvos.

Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio  Famous Quote

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Must I at length the Sword of Justice Draw? Oh, curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

John Dryden  Famous Quote

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The world is still, for she is old And many´s the bead of life she´s told. Her gossip there, the watching moon Views hill and stream and wave and dune

William Faulkner  Famous Quote

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Today, love and forgive.. That´s all you need to do --- one day at a time

Christine A. Adams  Famous Quote

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The Truth is in the Depths

Democritus of Abdera  Famous Quote

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First of all there is Blue. Later there is White, and then there is Black, and before the beginning there is Brown. Brown broke him in, Brown taught him the ropes, and when Brown grew old, Blue took over. That is how it begins. The place is New York, the time is the present, and neither one will ever change.

Paul Auster  Famous Quote

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The Fox devises many strategies, the Hedgehog knows one great and effective strategy.

Stephen Jay Gould  Famous Quote

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Much later, when he was able to think about the things that happened to him, he would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

Paul Auster  Famous Quote

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When the Enlightened King rules his deeds spread over the whole world but seem not from himself. His riches are loaned to the Myriad Things, but the people do not depend on him. He is there, but no one mentions his name. He let things find their own delight

Chuang - Tzu  Famous Quote

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