"Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said."
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"I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live."
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"Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since."
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"Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist."
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"That only shows you have no heart,’ she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him"
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"Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?"
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"There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go."
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"Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?"
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"So young," said Wyman Manderly, "Though mayhaps this was a blessing. Had he lived he would've grown up to be a Frey."
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"That man said he’d take your head too.” “Well, as to that,” Yoren said, “if he can get it off my shoulders, he’s welcome to it."
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"It seems to me,' said the other, 'That you are simply seeking a pretext to insult the Marquis.' By George!' said Syme facing round and looking at him, 'What a clever chap you are!"
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"Your offer," he said, "is far too idiotic to be declined."
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"She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived."
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"The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography"
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"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"
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"It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't."
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"So then you’re free?’ ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom."
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"You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone."
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"Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history."
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"Edward Said is a very honorable representative of the "intellectual" in the sense of the term that he defines."
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