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Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.


William Shakespeare

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Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the...
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Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the la...
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DAVE GOLDBERG The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie. TRADITIONAL FOLKTALE ENDING Heavy is the head that wears the crown
William Shakespeare
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Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
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can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
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Antony and Cleopatra (II.ii) ~Wi...
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Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN I understand a fury in your words
But not your words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT An elementary school student asked me the NOT “politically correct” question, “Is an idiot sma...
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SARA BELL Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.

'The first one. I really resent being ca...
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Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
SUZY KASSEM TO what purpose, April, do you return again?
Beauty is not enough.
You can no longer qui...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away.

"A cute idiot," Ally c...
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Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July —

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How it feels to be an unfunny clown."
And he told th...
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In one simplicity
That never life
Relinquishes a bloom
But to ...
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"Don't say that," I yelled. "You're ...
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Sounds create soulful existence,
When the ...
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DEIRDRE-ELIZABETH PARKER Despereaux," she whispered.
And then she shouted it, "Despereaux!"
Reader, nothing is swee...
KATE DICAMILLO Rain's pouring and it's too cold.
All people bored and I even accord
What to do but spel...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that Willia...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I wouldn’t put it past you,” Kaldar said. “Or him. Who knows what the hell he might do?”
ILONA ANDREWS Macon Ethan
I lay my head down on his chest and cried because had lived
because he had die...
KAMI GARCIA Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA Will you accept me?" Fury
"No. I'm here naked with you because all my clothes fell off by accid...
SHERRILYN KENYON Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.
RICHELLE MEAD TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or ...
RUDYARD KIPLING I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what...
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WHO WERE TOLD BY "LIFE"
THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A
REASON T...
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You never know when it will end, don’t let ...
MEHEK BASSI Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
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"Can it do any tricks yet?"
"I'm sti...
DEREK LANDY They say even death can't cure an idiot.
-Ririn
TITE KUBO You're an idiot."
"I've never claimed to be otherwise.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Respect every soul on this SOIL

If you make them toil, there blood will BOIL
<...
THERISINGHUMAN Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measur...
B.R. AMBEDKAR Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,
And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:
'Tim...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI We will meet; and there we may rehearse most
obscenely and courageously.

Shakespeare...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This is not your mom’s fairy tale.'

From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.
ASHEN VENEMA Life is full of endless possibilities.
Explore your world.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft re...
JIM MORRISON The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The mirror can lie.
Doesn't show you what's inside.
And it, it can tell you you're full of...
DEMI LOVATO WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an Adventure ... Dare it
Life is a Beauty ... Praise it
Life is a Cha...
ANON. There is a fable in the forest
Whispered by the branches, as they blow.
A tale about the t...
ERIN HANSON Tick. Tick. Tick.
This is the sound of your life running out.
ANONYMOUS I have a dream!
To be free at last!
Free at last!
Free at last.
And if a man has...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v...
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blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
h...
MUSE Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,
even so I will endure…
For al...
HOMER Do you remember how the sun, set
On the occasion, we last conversed?

First, it hid b...
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Life is eternal as we move into t...
CARLY SIMON Life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and...
LANGDON SMITH Those similar to thee works happen
liesin even if it is corrected. Life
full of hatred.
JUN JUN GUARINO a joy that hurts with sadness
a sadness that is pleasurable
a pleasure full of terror
AIDAN CHAMBERS I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fur...
EURIPIDES Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth
All death will he annul, all tears assuage?
Or fil...
WILFRED OWEN She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness.
...
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"Who's Magnus?" Max...
CASSANDRA CLARE I needed to say something. Something romantic! Something to sweep her off her feet.
"You're lik...
BRANDON SANDERSON Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me."
"Say 'please.'"
"Don...
J.K. ROWLING Since nothing is absolute
There is no absolute silence,
Only an appearance
Of temp...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC How Many Lumberjacks Does it Take to Ravish, Maim and Kill Five Feisty Female Co-eds?

Rea...
RICH BOTTLES JR. TO ALL MANKIND

Speak kind words
to mankind
and the unkind
will attack you....
SUZY KASSEM Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice
BASHō MATSUO ...flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender s...
MUSE 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...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

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 ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
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 ...
SARAH J. MAAS In the spring of life, in the flower of youth,
Everything is bright and new.
In the summer of...
C.A. SCHLEA A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.

—ATTICUS
ATTICUS POETRY One of the few times in a man's life when he is not full of shit!!

The morning of a colon...
JIM LAWRENCE Be near me when my light is low,
When the blood creeps, and the nerves prick
And tingle; a...
ALFRED TENNYSON

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Think but this, and all is mended,
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Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
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The appetite ...
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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
But for...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. Merchant Of Venice
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious l...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A politician is one that would circumvent God.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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