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“She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.”

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Jane Hamilton

Jane Hamilton is an American novelist known for her profound depiction of Midwestern life. Born on July 13, 1957, her works often focus on family, love, and community relationships, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.”

Jobs Fall Given Difficult Air Edges Boat Bridges Solitary Brushes No Fear Rope Over The Edge Daredevil Pulleys

Book:In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic

Source: In the Skin of a Lion: Picador Classic

“You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me that all this ultraviolence and killing is wrong, wrong, and terribly wrong. I've learned me lesson, sir. I've seen now what I've never seen before. I'm cured! Praise Bog! I'm cured!”

Lessons Praise Killing I've Learned Alright Clockwork Bogs

Author:Anthony Burgess

“Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.”

Ifs Wells Art Boys Oil Fats Poison Bottles Chips Jelly Clockwork Eunuchs

Author:Anthony Burgess

“There is darkness in every heart.”

Heart Darkness

Author:Shiro Amano

“My brother was born without taste or the desire to be professionally lit.”

Desire Born Brother Taste My Brother Lit

Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir

Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir

“This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.”

Knows World Littles Has Beens Effort Darkness This World Connected Meaningless Tied Kingdom Hearts

Author:Shiro Amano

“Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”

Way Giving Looks Certain Worst Prepared Occasions Useless Be Prepared Alarms

Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1

“Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78”

Ifs World Needs Mean Persons Has Beens Ends Born Unique Originals Narrative Something New Diamond Sober Like Her

Author:Martin Buber

“As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.”

Performers

Author:Russell Brand

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