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Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.
Jon Meacham
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When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.
Bill Jay
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What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot
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The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
Fredric Jameson
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In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.
Lorin Stein
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Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.
George D. Prentice
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Let the Word be preached, the truth taught, and error will be uncovered and souls delivered.
Arno C. Gaebelein
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I even tried to tell myself to live my best life today.
John Green
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Every Marxist group that I've known has its theoreticians.
Dorothy Day
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Incidentally, did you know that the whole eight glasses a day thing is complete bullshit and has no scientific basis? So many things are like that. Everyone just assumes they're true, because people are basically lazy and incurious, which incidentally is one of those words that sounds like it wouldn't be a word but is.
John Green
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Something there is more immortal even than the stars.
Walt Whitman
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Better slip with foot than tongue.
Benjamin Franklin
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Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Theodore Dreiser
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Do not let fancy outrun your means.
Benjamin Franklin
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I don't want to hear another negative word about cheerleaders. If it weren't for cheerleaders, who would tell us when and how to be happy during athletic events? If it weren't for cheerleaders, how would America's prettiest girls get the exercise that's so vital to a healthy life?
John Green
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So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
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At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country’s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.
Jonathan S. Tobin
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The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong if right, to be kept right and if wrong, to be set right.
Carl Schurz
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The core threat to democracy is not in the White House, it's the [Bush] haters themselves.
David Brooks
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In all our losses, all our gains, In all our pleasures, all our pains, The life of life is: Love remains. In every change from good to ill,- If love continues still, Let happen then what will.
Theodore Tilton
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Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
Frederick Douglass
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You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.
Charles Dickens
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Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
Dave Eggers
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I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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