"I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it."
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"Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert."
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"When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices."
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"She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man."
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"Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him."
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"When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it."
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"When you see the Escalades and the Hummers driving down the street, at least in Los Angeles, this dry, flat desert with shopping malls, when you see someone driving one of those through this you're like, 'You are definitely part of the problem.'"
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"A desert blessing, an ocean curse."
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"Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself."
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"It's hard to imagine a civilization without onions; in one form or another their flavor blends into almost everything in the meal except the desert."
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"Just as water is the only thing that can relieve thirst in the desert, the provision of God's Word is the only thing that can satisfy our spiritual thirst."
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"Welcome to the Desert of the Real."
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"No one can improve on nature's landscapes. I feel I've hit the mark when I've captured a balance between mood, look, and feel... when viewers say they sense the desert heat, or the chill of a mountain snowfall."
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