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You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.
Angela Carter
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They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.
Angela Carter
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Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.
Angela Carter
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
Angela Carter
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Angela Carter
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I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.
Lauren Oliver
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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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My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.
Martin Amis
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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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Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.
Ayn Rand
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Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.
Nora Roberts
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Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? [...] Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.
Paulo Coelho
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I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.
James Herbert
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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
T. H. White
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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
Dean Koontz
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The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The world can be a lot better than we settle for. All you have to do is ask.
Chuck Palahniuk
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You sadistic pansycake.
Veronica Roth
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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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I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.
John Shirley
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