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I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

~ Hollace M. Metzger

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Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop—there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God.

~ Christina Westover

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All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.

~ Christina Westover

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All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

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Darkness crept through. Shadows pried at doors, teased dull edges of recollections that never quite took hold. Memories that would have shriveled under the blinding sun of daylight. And reason.

~ Edward Fahey

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Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

~ Chinua Achebe

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For a moment Carl tried to picture everything in his mind, and then it happened. Somewhere inside of him, where cause and effect were not weighted against each other, and where logic and explanations never challenged consciousness, in that place where thoughts could live freely and played out against each other - right there in that spot, things fell into place, and he understood how it all fitted together

~ Jussi Adler-Olsen

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We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.

~ Henry Martin

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All good writers are thieves. The best get away with a heist.

~ Michael Stutz

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A rain forest springs from the droppings of animals and grows greater than any cultivated garden; likewise, a great mass of literary skill springs from the droppings of writers that cross our minds through the reading we do.

~ Agona Apell

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What a face this girl possessed!—could I not gaze at it every day I would need to recreate it through painting, sculpture, or fatherhood until a second such face is born.

~ Roman Payne

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A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.

~ Roman Payne

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Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting. I think they should be raw. They should be written as perfectly as possible, but what they do is to stir up, to lance the reader.

~ Edna O'brien

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The wind whirls and whistles and strip pink blooms from the mimosas, scatters twigs, broken limbs, pine needles and pine cones across our yard, and robs the pecan trees of a thousand leaves. The storm eventually dies, but the bruised trees continue to weep into the night, still shimmering with dewy leaves when the sun comes up the next morning.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

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He takes a draw on a cigarette, blows out a smoky ghost. I reach to catch the phantom in my hands, but it eludes me. I've been trying to catch a ghost for as long as I can remember.

~ Brenda Sutton Rose

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Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

~ Alex Morritt

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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.

~ David Mitchell

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