A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.

Criss Jami

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He had let me know time after time that he was a thinking man, a man of intellect and wit. Yet one unintended hungry look into my eyes and he betrayed each of his words he had carefully spoken to me. I knew it in that instant. He was a viscerally driven man. And one day, he would possess me.

Coco J. Ginger

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I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.

Alex Potvin

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Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus.

Dennis Lehane

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He wasn't aware of it but when he smiled he looked like an amiable bear. When he didn't smile he didn't look amiable

Emma Goldrick

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If life is a game... I need new dice!

Jay Little

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Historical Re-creation, he thought glumly, as they picked their way across, under, over or through the boulders and insect-buzzing heaps of splintered timber, with streamlets running everywhere. Only we do it with people dressing up and running around with blunt weapons, and people selling hot dogs, and the girls all miserable because they can only dress up as wenches, wenching being the only job available to women in the olden days.

Terry Pratchett

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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Dean Koontz

Tags: imagination life god wit charm con verve



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When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Stefano Benni

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It was a very proper wedding. The bride was elegantly dressed---the two bridemaids were duly inferior---her father gave her away---her mother stood with salts in her hand expecting to be agitated---her aunt tried to cry--- and the service was impressively read by Dr. Grant.

Jane Austen

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