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Triumphant Tories, and desponding Whigs, Forget their feuds, and join to save their wigs.
Jonathan Swift
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You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
Anton Chekhov
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This life of ours...human life is like a flower gloriously blooming in a meadow: along comes a goat, eats it up---no more flower.
Anton Chekhov
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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
Harper Lee
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I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
George R. R. Martin
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Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.
Andy Weir
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Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.
Andy Weir
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My asshole is doing as much to keep me alive as my brain.
Andy Weir
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The human being places sexual intercourse above all other joys, but leaves it out of his heaven.
Mark Twain
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Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them.
Ray Bradbury
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Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
Haruki Murakami
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Pity is the feeling which arrests the mind in the presence of whatesoever is grave and constant in human sufferings and unites it with the human sufferer.
James Joyce
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
Dante Alighieri
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The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.
Jeanette Winterson
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In civic life, I think that's where you can debate what is good taste and what is acceptable to other people, and what's gonna offend people. Do that there, but leave it out of art, because art is the one frontier that shouldn't have restraints put on it.
Irvine Welsh
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A deist is an atheist with an eye cocked for the off-chance of some advantage.
Honore de Balzac
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore de Balzac
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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"For a while"" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
Haruki Murakami
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Theres no story thats the start of itself.
Jeanette Winterson
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"""Weese,"" she would whisper, first of all. ""Dunsen, Chiswyck, Polliver, Raff the Sweetling. The Tickler and the Hound. Ser Gregor, Ser Armory, Ser Ilyn, Ser Meryn, King Joffrey, Queen Cersei."""
George R. R. Martin
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All the suffering that humanity ever knew can be traced to the one fact that no man in the history of the Galaxy ... could really understand one another. Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.
Isaac Asimov
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Man yields to death and man's sublimest works Must yield at length to Time.
Thomas Love Peacock
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And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.
George R. R. Martin
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