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• I wished for eternal and intriguing muteness. I would be the Mysterious Dumb Girl, the Enigmatic Elf. The human voice no longer interested me.

  Lorrie Moore

  Girl, Voice, Dumb

  Lorrie Moore (2012). “Who Will Run the Frog Hospital”, p.6, Vintage

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• Honestly, some cases have been more famous than others - like Tot Mom, or Steven Avery, or Scott Peterson - but I would not characterize any one as being more special to me, more intriguing, or more important because that would be placing one victim as more important, or one defendant as more [notorious] than others, and I don't think that's right.

  Nancy Grace

  Mom, Thinking, Special

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Thinking, Interesting, Brain

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• Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Feelings, Our Actions

  Luis Bunuel (2011). “My Last Breath”, p.9, Random House

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• What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances . . . the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane-the most natural-situations of life.

  Conrad Hyers

  Life, Focus, Ordinary

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• Patti Callahan Henry seamlessly combines mystery, family love, and personal journey all in one engrossing tale. From the intriguing beginning to the touching ending, The Stories We Tell is filled with the warmth, heart and compassion that have become the trademark of her novels.

  Diane Chamberlain

  Heart, Family Love, Journey

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• A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

  Oliver Sacks

  Profound, Brain, Guides

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• If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Encouragement, Women, Party

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• Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

  Scott Yanow

  Son, Voice, Leader

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• I believe you shouldn't force the audience's interpretation of a character or a story. The more you explain things, the less intriguing and imaginable they are for viewers. . . . Film to me, in its essence, in its ultimate nature, is silent. Music and dialogue are there to fill what is lacking in the image. But you should be able to tell the story with moving pictures alone. For my next project, though, I'd like to make the kind of film where the characters blabber all the time.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Believe, Moving, Character

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• I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking, People, Vampire

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• The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.

  T. J. Jagodowski

  Fashion, Jobs, Interesting

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• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  Bill Milkowski

  Fashion, New York, Cds

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• Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, People, Tolerance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Writing, Unique, Years

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• Adventure is important in life. Making memories matters. It doesn’t have to be a secret sea plane and an historic sports moment. But to have a great life, you need great memories. Grab any intriguing offer. Say yes to a challenge, and to the unknown. Be creative in adding drama and scope to your own life. Work at it, like a job. Money from effort comes and goes. But effort from imagination and following adventure creates stories that you keep forever. And anyone can do it.

  Rob Lowe

  Sports, Jobs, Memories

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• For a novelist, the gaps in a story are as intriguing as material that still exists.

  Sara Sheridan

  Novelists, Stories, Gaps

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• Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Law, Ideas

  Aleister Crowley (1970). “777 revised: vel, Prolegomena symbolica ad systemam sceptico-mysticae viae explicandae, fundamentum hieroglyphicum sanctissimorum scientiae summae”, Weiser Books

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• Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American. And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet.

  Malcolm X

  Blue, Europe, Long

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• [Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, America

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• He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hair, Alive

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.120, Vintage

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• Will, pure will, without the troubles and complexities of intellect - how happy! how free!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Trouble, Intellect, Complexity

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• Life becomes fully understandable only the moment we realise that we are all mad.

  Mark Twain

  Mad, Moments, Realising

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• We monsters are necessary to nature also.

  Marquis de Sade

  Monsters

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• The question of good and evil will always be one of philosophy's most intriguing problems, up there with the problem of existence itself...If evil means to be self motivated, to be the center of one's own universe, to live on one's own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil. Because we dare to look through our own eyes rather than mouth cliches lent us from the so-called Fathers. To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine with fuels us as a race.

  Janet Finch

  Father, Philosophy, Mean

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