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“They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.”

Book:The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

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This volume compiles a selection of short stories written by Amy Hempel, showcasing her distinctive narrative style and thematic concerns. more

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Amy Hempel

Amy Hempel is an American writer renowned for her concise and profound short stories. Her work often delves into themes of interpersonal relationships, loneliness, and death, earning her acclaim from readers and critics alike. more

“All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.”

Humans Long Stills Moments Stories Stars Effort Birth Passionate Disaster Tragic Lasting Host Galaxy Here And There Unimportant Barren Casualties

Book:Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Most problems look worse than they are. nothing is unfixable.”

Looks Problem

Author:Rick Riordan

“You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female." "McNab?" Eve said. "Yes, sir." "Shut up." "It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple." "A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.”

Needs Said Body Silence Land Couple Female Diets Shut Up Talk To Me Dallas Don't Talk To Me

Author:Nora Roberts

“Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.”

World Way Body Turns Technology Taken Come Up Leisure Artificial Hunters Born To Run Hunter Gatherers

Book:Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

Source: Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen

“Fuuuuuuuuuuck." Kynan scrubbed his face. "I could use a double shot of whiskey right now." "I'm sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar." "Flicka?" "I don't want to say her name." "So you're calling her horse names?" Ky coked a dark eyebrow. "I can't wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.”

Want I Can Hard Use Faces Names Waiting Dark Behinds Calling Right Now Shots Horse Bars Eyebrows Whiskey Liquor

Author:Larissa Ione

“We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown”

Hands Mistake France Brown Making Mistakes Application Cant Suitable Lipstick We All Make Mistakes Grenade

Author:Mira Grant

“Mother Nature is a freaky lady who probably created pot so she could spend all her time smoking it.”

Mother Smoking Pot Mother Nature Freaky

Author:Mira Grant

“The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime.”

Actors Lost Stage Crime Fine Holmes Specialists

Book:The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)

Source: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)

“A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.”

Men World Standards Profound Superiors Righteousness Superior Man

Author:Confucius

“I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me. My contemplation is an excruciation only because it is also a joy. I can not appropriate the snow field where i slide. It remains foreign, forbidden, but I take delight in this very effort toward an impossible possession. I experience it as a triumph, not as a defeat.”

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

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