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I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.
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punch
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ego
insulting
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Ayn Rand |
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It is He who makes the lightning flash upon you, inspiring you with fear and hope, and gathers up the heavy clouds. The thunder sounds His praises, and the angels, too, in awe of him. He hurls his thunderbolts at whom He pleases. Yet the unbelievers wrangle about God.
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maruts
old-man
rudra
wild-hunt
odin
wind
fates
zeus
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Anonymous |
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I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.
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heroes
dreams
old-man
book
hero
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Rodman Philbrick |
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Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about: Bringing the world to the window.
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words
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small
window
place
shadow
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Markus Zusak |
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l ts`~ lkhd` rjl msn y`lm 'n lmwt l ymkn 'n ykwn b`ydan
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old-man
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Jeffrey Archer |
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Does she ever see him watching her through the picture window? Most likely. Does she think he's a lecherous old man? Very probably. But he isn't exactly that. How to convey the mix of longing, wistfulness, and muted regret that he feels? His regret is that he isn't a lecherous old man, but he wishes he were. He wishes he still could be.
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old-man
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Margaret Atwood |
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He looked ninety years old for thirty years and then he got the notion that he would die, and did so.
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Richard Brautigan |