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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he."

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar
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"Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going."

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Ovid Poet
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"Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]"

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Michael Buckley Author, Educator
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"That's the coolest thing I've ever seen," Puck said. "How cool will it be when it kills us?" Sabrina asked. "Considerably less cool," Puck replied."

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