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I am something of a connoisseur of the country pile and I must say {he} had done himself remarkably well. At a guess I would say it was from the reign of Queen Anne and had been bunged up by some...

All were successful,and felt like failures.Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:None,or maybe one:Dumb...

As the doctor treated the wound, Mazer said, I don't care how much you eat, Ender, self-cannibalism won't get you out of this school.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down-or up, I suppose-replacing other people in the process.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

We will do what I always do in such situations, what I have already done a hundred times, which everyone who really knows the mountains does automatically. - Meaning? - catapult.

I'll become exactly the tool you want me to be, said Ender silently, but at least I wont be fooled into it. I'll do it because I choose to, not because you tricked me, you sly bastard.

What about this? A colony of nothing but Battle School grads. If they bred true, they'd be the smartest military minds in the galaxy.Then they'd come home and take over Earth.OK, not that.

When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up being compromised, unhappy, hobbled or ruined, because all around them,...

"Don't worry, we're not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we're not letting her out from behind this bar. {Aimee} Yeah, Prisoners R Us. {Tory}"

Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.

Normally, I admire your kick-in-the-face style, Lieutenant. But try that with this, and the two of us will be making love in heaven tonight." "Heaven wouldn't have either of us

Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

We are who we are. When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

In Frank I have found something beyond me, beyond my understanding, this is where some incredible core of me is destined to be even if not in this life.

In God's name, she thought, let the more loving one be someone else; for me it is beyond endurance.

I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.

Soccer writers seemed as starved for entertainment as art critics, anything vaguely enjoyable gets promoted to the level of genius. ~ 219

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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy,...

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

I came on earth for something, I must do something, and I must live and leave not just anything, but something!

So you have your price. Your soul for a cookie.

I can talk to fish! Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. Ask one over for dinner, Fang said, joining us.

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?-Alice in Wonderland

For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the lowest depths tenaciously resists the pressures of necessity and...

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

But I was no longer sacared. I could see what was inside me.-Lindo

{S}he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. {68}