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- People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
(William Goldman, "The Princess Bride")
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- He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew.
(William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice")
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- All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
(Zora Neale Hurston, "Their Eyes Were Watching God")
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- And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation.
(Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose")
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- At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.
(V.C. Andrews, "Flowers in the Attic")
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- Human reason can excuse any evil.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easilyàhe could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel.
(Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway")
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- In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it.
(Toni Morrison, "Beloved")
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- I sit back on my bed cross-legged and find myself rubbing the smooth iridescent surface of the pearl back and forth against my lips. For some reason, it's soothing. A cool kiss
(Suzanne Collins, "Mockingjay")
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- You can tell by the way the girls whisper about him when he walks by in school that they want him. It makes me jealous but not for the reason people would think. Good hunting partners are hard to find.
(Suzanne Collins, "The Hunger Games")
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- George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day-another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.
(Thomas Hardy, "Far from the Madding Crowd")
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- Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.
(Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried")
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- I love Twinkies, and the reason I am saying that is because we are all supposed to think of reasons to live.
(Stephen Chbosky, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower")
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