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ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative, translative, comitative. Sixteen cases of the Finnish noun. Odd, some languages get by with only singular and plural. The American Indian languages even failed to distinguish number. Except Sioux, in which there was a plural only for animate objects. The ..
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I came no nearer sleep than I came to the moon.
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The army is just too easy and too simple: fight to the death for the cause is just.
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Our parents saw each of us marrying, settling down, but certainly not with one another.
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As time progresses," Lump stated, "people learn. That's the only hope."
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In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.
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You're not looking for me, you know. I'm looking for you.
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Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.
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All right. I'm not opposed to reality imitating art if it doesn't get in the way.
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Sincerity is my favorite form of belligerence.
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You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.
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Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.
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The rich are always enamored of the ancient.
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Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.
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The inevitable is that unprepared for.
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Yeah, nigger, you better grin. Niggers can't smile in this book. (p. 87)
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And who's to say where life ceases and theater begins--
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Ah ha!" the Spike said. "I think we have just gotten down to a gritty--or at least a nitty."
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She simply has no concept of what's real and what's fantasy--did I say? She's in the theater.
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You mean I've come all this way to kill a man, and you tell me he's gone?
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To be a bandit is better than to be a slave!
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For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.
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'To write for others,' she thought, 'it seems one must be a spy--or a teller of tales.'
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Pryn felt the reckless freedom of assertion.
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What real power can buy, of course, is anonymity.
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I'm a public man, my princess. That means my only meaning is the web of signs I publicly inhabit.
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What makes a boy interesting does not make a man interesting.
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It is the rare society that does not abuse its artists.
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The artist's performance is always more or less aleatory.
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The audience's performance is always more or less stochastic.
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Origins are always constructs, always contouring ideological agendas.
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Men and women are less than a chromosome apart.
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