"Yes, St. Claire. I like you. But I can't say it aloud, because he's my friend. And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day"

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“Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.”

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“It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.”

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"Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co…"

— Thomas Pynchon

Literature1760–1796

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"In Mrs. Swinton's garden, it was always summer. The lovely almond trees stood about it in perpetual leaf. Monica Swinton plucked a saffron-colored rose and showed it to David."

— Brian Aldiss

Literature1925–2017

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