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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.


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REBECCA SOLNIT To err is human; to forgive, divine. -Alexander Pope.
ALEXANDER POPE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote--Alexander Pope.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Pope had perhaps the judgment of Dryden; but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of Pope.
SAMUEL JOHNSON You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS It's also important to read the newspaper every day to see how the pope is doing. Here in Rome, the ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho...
JAMES FREY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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C. JOYBELL C. His mother, Zach explained, taught the Romantics and named her sons accordingly, extravagantly, temp...
EMMA RICHLER He(Prophet Muhammad) was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without Pope's pretensions, Caesar ...
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HANI DURZY Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
BILL WILLIAMS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
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SAMUEL RICHARDSON I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
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His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
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SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
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ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
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DEYTH BANGER He's a man of great wisdom and knowledge. He's a man who serves the Lord. [about pope benedic XVI]
GEORGE W. BUSH James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.
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SAMUEL BECKETT I was studying Francis of Assisi for quite some time, when Benedict was still the pope. And I was st...
PATTI SMITH There was once this viral photo of the Pope doing his Pope-mobile parade, and everyone had their pho...
CHRISSY TEIGEN [Per Alexander Pope (1734):] Vice is a monster of so frightful mien/As to be hated, needs but to be ...
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And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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ARNOLD IRCHAI I have one coach and one coach only. His name is Alexander Vetrov. They brought him in for me when I...
DAVID HALLBERG That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The atmosphere is very strange for all of us. Germans and Italians feel very connected to the Pope, ...
MICHAEL SCHUMACHER Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
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BETSY BEERS True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
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VINCENT NICHOLS He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY I liked that the book brought von Braun to the surface. People didn't know much about him. He was a ...
WALLY SCHIRRA I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian thir...
MURIEL SPARK Neither our actions as trustees, nor the court's decision, deprived Jane Pope of so much as a dime t...
ART POPE The pope and a peasant know more between them than the pope alone
ITALIAN PROVERB I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO There's a tremendous statement there about the universality of man. It's who the pope is.
GILBERT LEVINE I never really grasped how big it was when I initially got 'Alexander'; I thought, 'Ooh,...
ED OXENBOULD I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'
JOHNNY DEPP What if Alexander Graham Bell's name were Alexander Graham Siren? The phone wouldn't ring, it would ...
GEORGE CARLIN The Pope knew and understood this best as he had been dealing with Jews and Muslims in an extraordin...
ISRAEL SINGER A Man Who Became Pope
KAROL WOJTYLA Alexander Nikolayevich was a defender ? a defender of our country, of democracy, of freedom of peopl...
ANDREI ILLARIONOV To write a book about Mickey Mantle and not to show people who he really was doesn’t make any sens...
PETER GOLENBOCK Abyssinias

"I met a traveler from an antique land
Who said: A huge four-foote...
HENRY N. BEARD I remember him as a very special young man. He was very positive and he was a young man who was a jo...
EVELYN FOX It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I mus...
POPE JOHN XXIII I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ...
WILL ROGERS [HAMILTON]
I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA

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JAMES JOYCE Love loves to love love.
JAMES JOYCE Here, and it goes on to appear now, she comes, a peacefugle, a parody's bird, a peri potmother, a pr...
JAMES JOYCE I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all...
JAMES JOYCE My sweet naughty girl I got your hot letter tonight and have been trying to picture you frigging you...
JAMES JOYCE Estaba destinado a aprender su propia sabiduría aparte de los otros o a aprender la sabiduría de l...
JAMES JOYCE If you can put your five fingers throught it, it is a gate, if not a door.
JAMES JOYCE All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.
JAMES JOYCE We did do very well in the transactions over $100 million that we chose to pursue, signing 11 and lo...
JAMES JOYCE (BUSINESSMAN) It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
JAMES JOYCE (CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSIONER) It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like...
JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can...
JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity.
JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo...
JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped...
JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han...
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