No zek had the right to stay one second in his workroom without the supervision of a free employee because prudence dictated that the prisoner would be bound to use that unsupervised second to break into the steel safe with a lead pencil, photograph its secret documents with a trouser button, explode an atom bomb, and fly to the moon. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
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Lorrie Moore
How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.
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Jennifer Salaiz
Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell...
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Cassandra Clare
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
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P.g. Wodehouse
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?""Yes, " said Harry stiffly." Yes, sir."" There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.
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J.k. Rowling
More Quotes By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a sword made sharp to smite the unclean forces, an enchanted sword to cleave and disperse them. Grant, O Lord, that...
