A.S. Peterson quote: "The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged. <br />“Is very good."

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Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?
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All scholars are a bit mad. All obsessions are dangerous.
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I would rather see a school produce a happy street cleaner than a neurotic scholar.
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Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his mu...
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Contemporary' was in those days [1953] synonymous with 'modern' as it had not been before and is not...
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Therefore,' said Loki the mockery, to the snake his daughter, 'we need to know everything, or at lea...
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But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.
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Charlie turned to me. "Want some?"
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Don't judge. I'm not getting drunk. I'm coping.
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Do you think we'll get married one day?" I said.
"To each other?" Charlie asked.
"No, sill...
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...I guess when you believe the word of a complete liar, logic doesn't come into it.
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Look at that, Vera.”
I tilt my head back and see a sky full of stars.
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You'll never lose me, Vera. I'm the Great Hunter now.
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I was also built from delusional optimism and folly.
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I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.
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I don’t have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is...
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I am the worlds laziest writer.
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Even though I'm not normal.
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I've been told (the wait) could be anywhere from three hours to three days, ... Someone said the war...
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I'm not interested in discussing it with the press right now.
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I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle.
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You guys line up alphabetically by height.
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Obviously we're going to replace it, but it won't happen overnight. We have quite a backlog.
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The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged.
“Is very good.

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The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged.
“Is very good.

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The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged. “Is very good.

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The man held himself still and turned his milk-flooded eyes on her. Fin felt something like vertigo and knew that, though blind, he was seeing. He wasn’t looking at her or past her. He was looking into her. And what he saw, he judged.
“Is very good.