"For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves."
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"If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!"
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"When I look at my goal, my goal is peace."
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"It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper."
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"Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major."
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"Dream strange things and make them look like truth."
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"I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways."
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"Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield."
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"I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week."
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"i suppose that's the secret, if you're ever wishing for things to back the way they were. You just have to look up."
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"Maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different."
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"I'm what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world, or anything. I don't fear hell, and I don't look forward to heaven."
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"I will not look at another's bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed."
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"Look not for refuge to anyone beside yourself. Heed fast to the truth as a lamp."
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"Boots in January are always a good look, and some of the cutest ones I've seen lately were designed by Ivanka Trump, who knows a thing or two about style."
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"We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses."
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"Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you."
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"There was a lot of maneuvering on the part of the Roosevelt administration to get the stars aligned so that that attack would happen. There's just no question about that; you don't even have to look at the decoding of diplomatic cables or anything else. FDR's own admiral thought it was a bad idea to have the fleet confined in one place way out in the middle of the Pacific."
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"She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around."
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"Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner."
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