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“Kinyani is Ivan's lady friend. Girlfriend? I've never been sure what they call it in gorilla.”

Book:The One and Only Bob

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The One and Only Bob

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Katherine Applegate

Katherine Applegate is an American author renowned for her children's literature. Born in July 1956, she is praised for her unique narrative style and profound insights into social issues. more

“1973 was the year of the OPEC oil embargo, the year Richard Nixon announced he was not a crook, the year Edward G. Robinson and Noel Coward died. It was Devin Jones’s lost year. I was a twenty-one-year-old virgin with literary aspirations. I possessed three pairs of bluejeans, four pairs of Jockey shorts, a clunker Ford (with a good radio), occasional suicidal ideations, and a broken heart.”

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Book:Joyland

Source: Joyland

“The question was not whether the world would end but how soon the end would come.”

End Of The World Revelation Page 13

Book:The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

Source: The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

“My son lives, she thought. My son lives and is... human. I knew he was... but... he lives. Now, I can go on living.”

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Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“He was still there. He didn’t know where to go. He didn’t have any place to go. In the whole world there was no place to go but this.”

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Book:Rendezvous in Black

Source: Rendezvous in Black

“But the harm went in deep. Deep, into places where it could never be gotten out again. Into places that, once they’re sick, can never be made sound again. Deep into the mind—into the reason.”

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Book:Rendezvous in Black

Source: Rendezvous in Black

“Some may be surprised to learn that there is this side to Professor Milner's life. But it is a mistake to believe that plain women are more or less celibate. The error is common, since in the popular mind - and especially in the media - the idea of sex is linked with the idea of beauty.”

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Book:Foreign Affairs

Source: Foreign Affairs

“Setting aside Vogue, she unfolds the newspaper. Gradually, the leisurely Times style, with its air of measured consideration and its undertone of educated irony, begins to calm her, as the voice of an English nanny might quiet a hurt, overwrought child.”

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Book:Foreign Affairs

Source: Foreign Affairs

“If she couldn't look like an attractive woman, she could look like a lady”

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Book:Foreign Affairs

Source: Foreign Affairs

“As a result men—even men she has been intimate with—do not now gaze upon her with dismay, as upon a beloved landscape devastated by fire, flood, or urban development. They do not mind that Vinnie Miner, who was never much to look at, now looks old. After all, they hadn’t slept with her out of romantic passion, but out of comradeship and temporary mutual need—often almost absent-mindedly, to relieve the pressure of their desire for some more glamorous female. It wasn’t uncommon for a man who had just made love to Vinnie to sit up naked in bed, light a cigarette, and relate to her the vicissitudes of his current romance with some temperamental beauty-breaking off occasionally to say how great it was to have a pal like her”

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Book:Foreign Affairs

Source: Foreign Affairs

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