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#1. - Why are you helping me? she asked abruptly. He paused for a moment in thought. Because you need it, he said, and because I can.

Ted Oswald

#2. Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

Henry Miller

#3. I left her wallpapering her much-loved, much-tended little corner of hell.

Joanna Russ

#4. To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.

Richard Bach

#5. Sounds like you're overcompensating ... Besides, I didn't want you to get a creak in your neck from lookin' down at me.

Dante Alighieri

#6. He [Samuel Butler] made a practise of doing the forks last when washing up, on the grounds that he might die before he got to them. This is very much his principle of 'eating the grapes downwards', so that however many grapes you have eaten the next is always the best of the remainder.

Philip Larkin

#7. I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Steve Harvey

#8. Desert time refused to structure itself. It preferred instead to flow in curlicues, vortices and tunnels, ...

Robyn Davidson

#9. Try not to come back."
"Oh, I'll be back, but it'll be to ask you out."
"Give it up, jock. It's not going to happen."
"We'll see.

Jaci Burton

#10. If you use common sense and keep your eyes open, it becomes clear enough where the end is.

Haruki Murakami