Laini Taylor Quotes
Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
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I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.
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Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
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The nine inches right here; set it straight and you can beat anybody in the world.
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Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.
