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• She offered her mouth to him, as if enchanted. A Persian princess, a little Indian, a fox, a morning glory, a lovely wisteria--it always pleased them when you told them they looked like something, like something else.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Morning, Princess, Lovely

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• It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film and you decide "This is a movie I don't like," basically you can take every element of the film and find the obvious flaw, or argue that it seems ridiculous, or like a parody of itself, or that it's not as good as something similar that was done in a previous film. What's hard to do is describe why you like something. Because ultimately, the reason things move people is very amorphous. You can be cerebral about things you hate, but most of the things you like tend to be very emotive.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Hate, Moving, Writing

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reality, Looks

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• On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes and I will be more and more crucified to this world. It will become to me like something dead and putrid, impossible for me to enjoy.

  John Owen

  Eye, Desire, World

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• God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more internal. Most people think he has to look like something or someone- a roofleaf or Christ- but we don't. And not being tied to what God looks like, frees us.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Years, People

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

  Marguerite Duras

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  Marguerite Duras (1998). “Writing”, Brookline Books

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• It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Children, Book

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.115, Portobello Books

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• And the rain was brain colored and the thunder sounded like something remembering something.

  Stan Rice

  Rain, Remember, Thunder

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• I like that: a little pressure on the understood boundaries of yourself. Sounded like something out of a self-awareness class, probably with yoga. See what kind of a pretzel you can tie yourself into and press on the understood... I was raving, if only to myself.

  Robin McKinley

  Yoga, Self, Class

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• Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

  Joss Whedon

  Firefly, Psychics, Space

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• I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

  Lauren Slater

  Zero, Lasts, Return

  Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated

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• No! Please! I'll tell you whatever you want to know!" the man yelled. "Really?" said Vimes. "What's the orbital velocity of the moon?" "What?" "Oh, you'd like something simpler?

  Terry Pratchett

  Moon, Men, Want

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

  Leif Enger

  Ignorance, Example, Looks

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.134, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

  Dorothy Parker

  Looks, Young

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.88, Penguin

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• I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.

  Mary Karr

  Moving, Hands, Numbers

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• Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

  Gregory Maguire

  Animal, Elphaba

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.80, Harper Collins

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• Would you like to watch TV or get between the sheets and contemplate this violent freeway, would you like something to eat would you like to learn to fly would ya, would you like to see me try

  Roger Waters

  Trying, Watches, Tvs

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• . . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.

  Muriel Barbery

  Despair, Odd, Moments

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• I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I realized that it was the record I had played in Naoko's room on the night of her birthday, the night she cried and I took her in my arms. That had happened only six months earlier, but it felt like something from a much remoter past. Maybe it felt that way because I had thought about it so often-too often, to the point where it had distorted my sense of time.

  Haruki Murakami

  Past, Night, Hair

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• Salander's fingers emerged like something dead from beneath the earth. Had there been any human watching, he would probably have reacted like the fox. He was gone like a shot.

  Steig Larsson

  Gone, Earth, Foxes

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• I think that men ought to treat women like something other than weaker men with breasts.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Thinking, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.17, Penguin

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• I'm just full of surprises." Watching her, he waved the wrapped bar from side to side. "You can have the candy if you sit on my lap." That sounds like something perverted old men say to young, stupid girls." I'm not old, and you're not stupid." He sat, patted his knee. "It's Belgian chocolate." Just because I'm sitting on your lap and eating your candy doesn't mean you can cop a feel," she said as she folded into his lap.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

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• I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Beautiful, People, Worry

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• If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

  Lori Lansens

  About Yourself, Ifs

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Wife's Tale”, p.176, Knopf Canada

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• A story is like something you wind out of yourself. Like a spider, it is a web you weave, and you love your story like a child.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Children, Wind, Spiders

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