Literary Goat

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“She reached higher on her leg, and then she was overcome by a rush of nausea and dizziness. Her groping fingers had found a nub of bone and tattered flesh. She knew that the warm, pulsing flow over her fingers in the chill water was her own blood.” #PeterBenchley #Jaws

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“I was sat­urat­ed through and through. Enough love might have been wrung out of me, metaphor­ical­ly speak­ing, to drown any­body in; and yet there would have re­mained enough with­in me, and all over me, to per­vade my en­tire ex­is­tence.” #CharlesDickens #DavidCopperfield

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“Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.” #GeorgeRRMartin #AFeastForCrows

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“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.” #IanMcEwan #TheCementGarden

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“Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.” #JosephCampbell #CreativeMythology

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“The only difference between lying and acting was whether your audience was in on it, but it was all a performance just the same.” #BritBennett #TheVanishingHalf

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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” #FScottFitzgerald #TheGreatGatsby

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“ Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.” #AnthonyDoerr #AllTheLightWeCannotSee

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“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.” #StephenKing #TheStand

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“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” #JRRTolkien #TheFellowshipOfTheRing

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“The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.” #CSLewis #TheScrewtapeLetters

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“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.” #AliceWalker #TheColorPurple

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"If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
#CharlotteBronte #JaneEyre

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“I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.” #AnneRice #TheQueenOfTheDamned

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“It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.” #ChelseaHandler #AreYouThereVodkaItsMeChelsea

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“It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.” #JudyBlume #AreYouThereGodItsMeMargaret

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“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”#HermannHesse #Siddhartha

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"I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over." #AmyTan #TheJoyLuckClub

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"The voice of forest water in the night, a woman's laughter in the dark, the clean, hard rattle of raked gravel, the cricketing stitch of midday in hot meadows, the delicate web of children's voices in bright air--these things will never change." #ThomasWolfe #YouCantGoHomeAgain

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“Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.” #JohnBerendt #MidnightInTheGardenOfGoodAndEvil