"Kerosene," he said, because the silence had lengthened, "is nothing but perfume to me."
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"There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration."
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"It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government."
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"John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?'"
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"You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it."
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"He said, 'Always. Always."
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"Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too."
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"He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo."
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"Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often."
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"Listen,' he said. 'It's important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do."
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"He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself."
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"I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon."
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"He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat."
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"Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them."
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"Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts."
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"That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually."
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"But of works of art little can be said."
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"I don't think any president that I worked with has ever said 'pretty please."
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"I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction," said Mathilde. "It is the only thing which cannot be bought."
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"In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom."
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