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I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never to engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it.
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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We are not grand because we are at the top of the food chain or because we can alter our environment - the environment will outlast us with its unfathomable forces and unyielding powers. But rather than be bound and defeated by our insignificance, we are bold because we exercise our will anyway, despite the ephemeral and delicate presence we have in this desert, on this planet, in this universe.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aaron Ralston
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I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
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Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk.
Twilight Saga: New Moon - Stephanie Meyer
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Life he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is a mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
The Last Song - Nicholas Sparks
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time.
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
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Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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As a writer, all you can do is pick a street and go for the ride.
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
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The greater the discouragements of the journey, the keener I was to press on and embrace my new life.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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What had given the illusion of closeness that evening was only our regret for the past, our sadness that the world doesn’t stand still.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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You so quickly get used to peace. It is like being well - you take it for granted, and forget that when you were ill, to be well again had seemed everything.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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Time, the discoverer of truth.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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I knew there was more to me than my setting and routine showed.
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipaul
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