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“Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!”

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Warren Ellis is a British author known for his work in comics, novels, and screenplays. Born on February 16, 1968, he is a prolific writer with a diverse range of interests, including science fiction, fantasy, and crime novels. more

“I had one last try. "Does it bother you that I'm not a virgin?" He hesitated a moment before answering. "Well, no," he said slowly, "so long as it doesna bother you that I am." He grinned at my drop-jawed expression, and backed toward the door. "Reckon one of us should know what they're doing," he said. The door closed softly behind him; clearly the courtship was over.”

Knows Should Trying Wells Long Doe Said Moments Lasts Behinds Doors Expression Bother Virgins Courtship Outlander Jamie Fraser Claire Fraser

Book:The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

Source: The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn

“If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.”

Ifs World Way Children Stills Book Running Asks Left Four Wife Reader Gratitude Affection My Wife Dedication Splits

Author:J. D. Salinger

“If, along the way, something is gained, then something will also be lost.”

Ifs Way Lost

Author:Miriam Toews

“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by profession. It sounded to me like the loveliest euphemism I had ever heard. When was writing ever your profession? It's never been anything but your religion.”

Knows Writing Heard Profession Do You Know Euphemism

Author:J. D. Salinger

“I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.”

Ifs Thinking Said Book Reading One Thing Teaching College Library What If Frightened Margins

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.”

Effort

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“Beauty is a sign of intelligence.”

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Author:Andy Warhol

“Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.”

Ifs Knows Feels Today Past Film Water Behinds Seeing Feet Walking Window Pressure Edges Stores Ice Usual Peers Floats Blades Tense Freeze Skates Cement Eagerness Present Tense

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens I Can Would Be Can Do Practice Theory Caves Living On Hermits

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

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