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#1. Fuck, Ranger said.
Ranger didn't often curse and he rarely raised his voice. The fuck has been entirely conversational. Like he was now midly inconvenienced. He put his Bates boot to the door and the door popped open..

Janet Evanovich

#2. We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage?

Ashleigh Banfield

#3. Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#4. I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.

D. A. Pennebaker

#5. Any utterance of more than trivial length has no one translation; all utterances have innumerably many acceptable translations

David Bellos

#6. If a religion is not universal, it cannot be eternal. A narrow religion, a sectarian religion, an exclusive religion can live only for a limited time and a limited purpose.

Sri Aurobindo

#7. As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.

Jack White

#8. There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.

Mario Testino

#9. Humility isn't thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.

Patrick Lencioni

#10. I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

#11. I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into her frozen remains the fire that was consuming me.

Theophile Gautier

#12. Which is to say: a city boy, definitively. He knew exactly which spot on which subway platform corresponded with which staircase on which other platform.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she would not hear him take his bath in the Suchow tub. He was alive and now he was dead.

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

Bobby McFerrin