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- Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.
(Wilson Rawls, "Where the Red Fern Grows")
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- High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- We have it all arranged in our minds, and the less often we see a particular person the more satisfying it is to check how obediently he conforms to our notion of him every time we hear of him. Any deviation in the fates we have ordained would strike us as not only anomalous but unethical. We would prefer not to have known our neighbor, the retired hot-dog stand operator, if it turns out he has just produced the greatest book of poetry his age has seen.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential - I know it.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
(Wally Lamb, "I Know This Much is True")
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- Blimey, thought Kelvin, what an eye-to-face ratio. When you want to say something delicate, you don't want that eye-to-face ration staring up at you. Big eyes, like a child's or a baby seal's; the physiognomy of innocence--looking at Archie Jones is like looking at something that expects to be clubbed round the head any second.
(Zadie Smith, "White Teeth")
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- He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- He looked like the love thoughts of women.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise and it would not obey.
(Walter M. Miller Jr, "A Canticle for Leibowitz")
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- She couldn't make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom - a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs with every step he took. Spices hung above him. He was a glance from God.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
(Wilkie Collins, "The Woman in White")
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