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• I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities.

  Aldous Huxley

  Bullying, Fun, Responsibility

  Aldous Huxley (1955). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Simple, People, Wicked

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.9, Macmillan

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Brother, Father, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fate, Winter, Bored

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• They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Looks

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• Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten and my step become vacillating, on condition that I can save the intelligence of my soul - let my unformed childhood soul, as it ages, assume the rational and esthetic forms of an architecture, let me learn just everything that others cannot teach me, what only life would be capable of marking deeply in my skin!

  Salvador Dali

  Wrinkles, Hair, Iron

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.

  Tana French

  Fear, Heart, Dark

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• If Satan should ever replace God he would find it necessary to assume the attributes of Divinity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Divinity, Satan, Should

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• For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Lions, Caught

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “TARZAN OF THE APES SERIES - Complete Collection: 25 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated): The Return of Tarzan, The Beasts of Tarzan, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar, Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Tarzan the Untamed, Tarzan and the Golden Lion, Tarzan the Terrible and many more”, p.174, e-artnow

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• To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

  Frantz Fanon

  Mean, Civilization, Support

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.17, Pluto Press

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• We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

  Tami Hoag

  Temptation, Judgement, Quality

  Tami Hoag (2002). “Dark Horse”, p.62, Bantam

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• I can only assume," said Jace, "that mortal emotions amuse you because you have none of your own.

  Cassandra Clare

  Emotion, Jace, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.584, Simon and Schuster

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• Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Worst

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.112, Penguin

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Media, Departed, Kim Il Sung

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.507, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Charming, Ownership, Abstract

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.398, e-artnow

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• If love could force my own thoughts over the edge of the world and out of time, then could I not see how even divine omnipotence might by the force of its own love be swayed down to the world? ...how it might, because it could know its own creatures only by compassion, put on mortal flesh, become a man, and walk among us, assume our nature and our fate, suffer our faults and our death?

  Wendell Berry

  Fate, Love Is, Men

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• It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America.

  David Sedaris

  Gun, America, Machines

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• You wrong yourself and me by assuming my interest in you is purely physical,” he went on. “I told you I am eager to further our acquaintance. I want to know what you think about things. What you want out of life. What you dream. -Lucien to Alice

  Gaelen Foley

  Dream, Thinking, Want

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.102, Ballantine Books

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• Am I to assume you would rather not have us as clients?"
 "Let me think about that for a nanosecond," Dickie said. "Yes! Last time you were in my office you tried to kill me."
 "That's an exaggeration. Maim you, yes. Kill you, probably not."


  Janet Evanovich

  Thinking, Office, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Janet Evanovich from Jul 24, 2014

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• I wouldn't want to assume that all men are like you. If I did, I know I would give them up entirely

  Patricia Cornwell

  Men, Giving, Want

  Patricia Cornwell (2010). “The Body Farm: Scarpetta 5”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reading, People, Theatre

  Arnold Bennett (1974). “Arnold Bennett: the Evening standard years: "Books and persons" 1926-1931”, Shoe String Pr Inc

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• I assume this is all part of some brutally simplistic plan you've thought up?" "Yes." "Oh, good.

  Eric S. Nylund

  Plans

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• It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.

  Douglas Coupland

  Real, Waiting, Friendly

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