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  1. Cecily von Ziegesar _ You're the One That I Want

    You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy."
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  2. John le Carré _ Call for the Dead

    society is unconcerned with the aftermath of sensation.
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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  4. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    He had to accept the fate of every newcomer to a small town where there are plenty of tongues that gossip and few minds that think.
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  5. Christopher Isherwood _ Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 -

    Mr. Pilates was a bully and a narcissist and a dirty old man; he and Christopher got along very well. When Christopher was doing his workout, Pilates would bring one of his assistants over to watch, rather as the house surgeon brings an intern to study a patient with a rare deformity. 'Look at him!' Pilates would exclaim to the assistant, 'That could have been a beautiful body, and look what he's done to it! Like a birdcage that somebody trod on!' Pilates had grown tubby with age, but he would never admit it; he still thought himself a magnificent figure of a man. 'That's not fat,' he declared, punching himself in the stomach, 'that's good healthy meat!' He frankly lusted after some of his girl students. He used to make them lie back on an inclined board and climb on top of them, on the pretext that he was showing them an exercise. What he really was doing was rubbing off against them through his clothes; as was obvious from the violent jerking of his buttocks.
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  6. Christopher Isherwood _ Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 -

    Katherine Anne {Porter} treated them like favored nephews; she even cooked meals for them. Unfortunately, however, beneath Christopher's deference and flattery, there was a steadily growing aggression. By her implicit claim to be the equal of Katherine Mansfield and even Virginia Woolf, Katherine Anne had stirred up Christopher's basic literary snobbery. , he began to mutter to himself, this vain old frump, this dressed-up cook in her arty finery, how dare she like this! And he imagined a grotesque scene in which he had to introduce her and somehow explain her to Virginia, Morgan {Forster} and the others . . . {t}hus Katherine Anne became the first of an oddly assorted collection of people who, for various reasons, made up their minds that they would never see Christopher again. The others: Charlie Chaplin, Benjamin Britten, Cole Porter, Lincoln Kirstein.
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  7. Gregory Maguire _ Wicked: The Life and Times of

    People always did like to talk, didn't they? That's why I call myself a witch now: the Wicked Witch of the West, if you want the full glory of it. As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
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  8. Mercedes Lackey _ The Phoenix Unchained

    Among the dragons, the prohibition against asking direct questions did not exist, and-as Harrier discovered immediately-dragons were even more outrageous gossips than sailors.
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  9. Raymond E. Feist _ Mistress of the Empire

    Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
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  10. J.R.R. Tolkien _ The Fellowship of the Ring

    There isn't no call to go talking of pushing and pulling. Boats are quite tricky enough for those that sit still without looking for further for the cause of trouble.
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  11. Geraldine Brooks _ The Secret Chord

    The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
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  12. Lewis Carroll _ The Letters of Lewis Carroll:

    You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of your friends, of the wicked recklessness with which people repeat things to the disadvantage of others, without a thought as to whether they have grounds for asserting what they say. I have met with a good deal of utter misrepresentation of that kind. And another result of my experience is the conviction that the opinion of "people" in general is absolutely worthless as a test of right and wrong. The only two tests I now apply to such a question as the having some particular girl-friend as a guest are, first, my own conscience, to settle whether I feel it to be entirely innocent and right, in the sight of God; secondly, the parents of my friend, to settle whether I have their full approval for what I do. You need not be shocked at my being spoken against. Anybody, who is spoken about at all, is sure to be spoken against by somebody: and any action, however innocent in itself, is liable, and not at all unlikely, to be blamed by somebody. If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much
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