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  1. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess

    I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses.
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  2. Michael Chabon _ Werewolves in Their Youth

    He and Dolores had been married thirty-one months before parting. There had been an extramarital kiss, entrepreneurial disaster, a miscarried baby, sexual malaise, and then very soon they had been forced to confront the failure of an expedition for which they had set out remarkably ill-equipped, like a couple of trans-Arctic travelers who through lack of preparation find themselves stranded and are forced to eat their dogs.
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  3. William Golding _ Lord of the Flies

    The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.
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  4. Bryce Courtenay _ The Power of One

    As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit the making of the myth. Man is a romantic at heart and will always put aside dull, plodding reason for the excitement of an enigma. As Doc had pointed out, mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope and keeps us believing in a force greater than our own insignificance.
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  5. William Shakespeare _ Othello

    I hold my peace, sir? no;No, I will speak as liberal as the north;Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.
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  6. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _ The Little Prince

    Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
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  7. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude

    His bones began to fill with sounds
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  8. Jodi Picoult _ Where There's Smoke

    There are two types of spirits. One makes the transition to the spirit realm and goes on to whatever comes next. They can still come back to connect with people who are alive, but it's like dropping by for a visit, and then they go back to whatever it is they were happily doing in the next life. On the other hand, earthbound spirits-ghosts-are folks who pass but still have unfinished business. They feel like they're going to be judged for something they did wrong; or they don't know they are dead; or they are angry about being dead and not getting to finish something. They have been cheated out of life. They stay on a plane that's closer to the plane of earth, and that's why they're always at the corners of our vision and the edges of our dreams. Once they complete the process and resign themselves to the fact that their time on earth is finished and they've done what they can do, they can move to the next level.
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  9. Brian Greene _ The Fabric of the Cosmos:

    You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.
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  10. Anthony Burgess _ A Dead Man in Deptford

    Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.
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  11. Frances Hodgson Burnett _ A Little Princess

    That girl has been listening," she said.The culprit snatched up her brush, and scrambled to her feet. She caught at the coal box and simply scuttled out of the room like a frightened rabbit.Sara felt rather hot-tempered."I knew she was listening," she said. "Why shouldn't she?"Lavinia tossed her head with great elegance."Well," she remarked, "I do not know whether your mamma would like you to tell stories to servant girls, but I know manna wouldn't like to do it.""My mamma!" said Sara, looking odd. "I don't believe she would mind in the least. She knows that stories belong to everybody.""I thought," retorted Lavinia, in severe recollection, "that your mamma was dead. How can she know things?""Do you think she know things?" said Sara, in her stern little voice. Sometimes she had a rather stern little voice."Sara's mamma knows everything," piped in Lottie. "So does my mamma--'cept Sara is my mamma at Miss Minchin's--my other one knows everything. The streets are shining, and there are fields and fields of lilies, and everybody gathers them. Sara tells me when she puts me to bed.""You wicked thing," said Lavinia, turning on Sara; "making fairy stories about heaven.""There are much more splendid stories in Revelation," returned Sara. "Just look and see! How do you know mine are fairy stories? But I can tell you"--with a fine bit of unheavenly temper--"you will never find out whether they are or not if you're not kinder to people than you are now. Come along, Lottie.
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  12. Raymond Chandler _ The Long Goodbye

    I went out to the kitchen to make coffee-yards of coffee. Rich, strong, bitter, boiling hot, ruthless, depraved. The lifeblood of tired men.
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