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“Each couple is its own vaudeville act.”

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Zadie Smith is a British novelist known for her distinctive literary style and profound social insights. Her works cover a range of themes including race, class, gender, and identity, and have been widely appreciated by readers. more

“The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.”

Source: In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954

“They came to her, naturally, since she was a woman, all day long with this and that; one wanting this, another that; the children were growing up; she often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”

Humans Children Long Felt Emotion Growing Up Growing Sponges Human Emotions

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?”

Ifs Men World Humans Doe Today Human Beings Progress Depends Civilization Average Great Men Better Now Pharaohs

Book:To the Lighthouse

Source: To the Lighthouse

“It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.”

Source: Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês

“Oh, but she never wanted James to grow a day older or Cam either. These two she would have liked to keep for ever just as the way they were, demons of wickedness, angels of delight, never to see them grow up into long-legged monsters.”

Way Long Two Wanted Grows Growing Up Angel Delight Monsters Demon Wickedness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)

“When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.”

Source: Shakespeare’s Sonnets: The Problems Solved

“Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.”

Action Illusion Veils

Book:The Birth of Tragedy: Or Hellenism and Pessimism

Source: The Birth of Tragedy: Or Hellenism and Pessimism

“Ooh, the silent treatment.”

Silent Treatment Silent Treatment

Author:Ally Carter

“It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Book Matter Stories Reading Cases Gone Four Materials Months Six Pages Bags Six Months Eccentricity

Author:Robin McKinley

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