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• Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

  Ian Mcewan

  Character, Female, Sweet Tooth

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• For the eternity that Lux Lisbon looked at him, Trip Fontaine looked back, and the love he felt at that moment, truer than all subsequent loves because it never had to survive real life, still plagued him, even now in the desert, with his looks and health wasted. 'You never know what'll set the memory off,' he told us. 'A baby's face. A bell on a cat's collar. Anything.' They didn't exchange a single word. But in the weeks that followed, Trip spent his days wandering the halls, hoping for Lux to appear, the most naked person with clothes on he had ever seen.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Baby, Memories, Real

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• The sahara desert the Rapunzel the charity the gifted tales.

  Marissa Meyer

  Sahara, Charity, Rapunzel

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• In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Men, Challenges

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• His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!

  Paul Valery

  Heart, Islands, Grace

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• A desert blessing, an ocean curse.

  John Green

  Ocean, Blessing, Curse

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• You told us to leave you in the desert, because you planned to start a new life as cactus," Catarina said, her voice flat. "Then you conjured up tiny needles and threw them at us. With pinpoint accuracy.

  Cassandra Clare

  Voice, New Life, Cactus

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• I open my eyes to see Ry staring at me, and my desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.

  Kiersten White

  Eye, Dark, Rushing

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• It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

  Neil Gaiman

  World, Sand, Grain

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Dream, Stupidity, Solitude

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain”, p.7, Booklassic

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• Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

  Daniel Silva

  Years, Camping, Lasts

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• Around Mik, my powers desert me. I lose basic motor function, like my brain focuses all neural activity on my lips and shifts into kiss preparedness mode way too early, to the detriment of things like speech, and walking.

  Laini Taylor

  Kissing, Brain, Speech

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.29, Hachette UK

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• Beauty, wit,
  High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,
  Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all
  To envious and calumniating time.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Charity

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• A handful of red sand from the hot clime
  Of Arab deserts brought,
  Within this glass becomes the spy of Time,
  The minister of Thought.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Glasses, Spy

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

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• A little sun, a little rain,
  A soft wind blowing from the west,
  And woods and fields are sweet again,
  And warmth within the mountain's breast
  
  A little love, a little trust,
  A soft impulse, a sudden dream,
  And life as dry as desert dust,
  Is fresher than a mountain stream.

  Stopford Brooke

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  Stopford Augustus Brooke (1889). “Poems”

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• In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee

  Lord Byron

  Sympathy, Bird, Tree

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.496, Delphi Classics

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• What else can I do, a lame old man, but sing hymns to God? If I were a nightingale, I would do the nightingale's part; if I were a swan, I would do as a swan. But now I am a rational creature, and I ought to praise God. This is my work. I do it, nor will I desert my post, so long as I am allowed to keep it. And I ask you to join me in this same song.

  Epictetus

  Song, Men, Swans

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• Speciation does not necessarily promote evolutionary change; rather, speciation 'gathers in' and guards evolutionary change by locking and stabilization for sufficient geological time within a Darwinian individual of the appropriate scale. If a change in a local population does not gain such protection, it becomes-to borrow Dawkins's metaphor at a macroevolutionary scale-a transient duststorm in the desert of time, a passing cloud without borders, integrity, or even the capacity to act as a unit of selection, in the panorama of life's phylogeny.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Integrity, Clouds

  Stephen Jay GOULD, Stephen Jay Gould (2009). “Punctuated Equilibrium”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• In the desert, the only god is a well.

  Vera Nazarian

  Water, Wells

  Vera Nazarian (2004). “Dreams of the Compass Rose”, p.18, Wildside Press LLC

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• ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lonely, Children, Real

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• Recently I stood in the desert, far out side of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from 1930. Every where stood animals: elephants, tigers that should be loaded into a steam train. 300 extras in costumes raced around, the modern world had disappeared totally. Although that was totally fake, it still happened directly before my eyes! That was my perfect day. I would be gladly experience that every day. It happens continually to me: It calls itself work. That is wonderful and more than enough.

  Robert Pattinson

  Eye, Animal, Perfect Days

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• Beware the beast Man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death.

  Roddy McDowall

  Sports, Brother, Home

  "Fictional character: Cornelius". "Planet of the Apes", www.imdb.com. February 8, 1968.

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• What goes on between a man and his missus is nobody's business; especially where desert toppin's involved.

  Tanya Huff

  Men, Goes On, Dessert

  Tanya Huff (2011). “Nights of the Round Table: And Other Stories of Heroic Fantasy”, p.7, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• Bassist Steve Uccello's Symmetria is filled with cool and unique sounds, textures, and musical ideas, evoking an imagined atmosphere of open spaces influenced by Ry Cooder's desert dusty roads as much as anything a bassist could conjure up. It fits a mellow, contemplative mood perfectly.

  Bryan Beller

  Unique, Ideas, Space

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• In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be 'desert'), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen.

  Reyner Banham

  Landscape, May, Happens

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