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Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.


Thomas Ligotti

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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...
SARAH J. MAAS Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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SEAMUS HEANEY 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.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 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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JOY REDDING Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each ot...
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JOHN GREEN A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. Ego, being love's kryptonite; two souls must be on the same page of humility.
T.F. HODGE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS While fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.
WILLIAM COWPER There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeli...
GARTH BROOKS She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.
BARRY LYGA It seems you can take a picture on your Vodafone and it can be on the front page of a celebrity maga...
JENNIFER SAUNDERS The erotic is not about nudity and nudity is rarely erotic. The erotic is subtle, a feeling, a gestu...
CHLOE THURLOW Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. It's like ripping a page from a book, a page of history in which our ancestors' story is told.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If history was written about his-story (the victor) is not accurate history
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I would no...
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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...
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"Ah. The Suriel to...
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BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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TERESA OF AVILA There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
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LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI She showed him her finger—just one of them.
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ISIDORE DUCASSE LAUTREAMONT [He] is salt rubbed in the wounds of the nation's conscience. He is a scream of pain. He is an accus...
FERN MARJA ECKMAN I’m so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
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CHEN SHUI-BIAN For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. T...
HERMANN HESSE We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
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HARRY A. BLACKMUN Our existence comes with Death. And it comes with suffering, death alone is not enough and pleasure ...
IRA N. BARIN The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
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While pimping out our pussy
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THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp...
CLARENCE THOMAS The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i...
DEBI THOMAS Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS #4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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