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• Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

  Mark Twain

  Sports, Dog, Pain

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• People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Fall, Color

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Understanding Your Potential: Discovering the Hidden You”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Girl, Children, Boys

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “The Secret Garden”, p.62, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Everyone stopped to blink at that for a second. I mean, come on. Impaled by a guided frozen turkey missile. Even by the standards of the quasi-immortal creatures of the night, that ain't something you see twice. "For my next trick," I panted into the startled silence, "anvils.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Night, Turkeys

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.113, Penguin

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• The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Magic, Helping

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.268, Canongate Books

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• Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.

  Katy Evans

  Believe, Littles, Larger Than Life

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• It seems to me that the moralist is the most useless and contemptible of creatures. He is useless in that he would expend his energies upon making judgments rather than upon gaining knowledge, for the reason that judgment is easy and knowledge is difficult. He is contemptible in that his judgments reflect a vision of himself which in his ignorance and pride he would impose upon the world. I implore you, do not become a moralist; you will destroy your art and your mind.

  John Edward Williams

  Art, Ignorance, Pride

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• In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will either turn tail and run or fall into line behind him, like the rest of us have.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Running, Distance, Fall

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• To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

  Agatha Christie

  Joy, Sorrow, Care

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• The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Lying, Boys

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.

  Kate Forsyth

  Girl, Stars, Flower

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• So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.

  Ray Bradbury

  Animal, Laughing, Choices

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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• I have very few rules in life, but one of them is to never decline an adventure. The others are: to avoid becoming romantically entangled with sea creatures; to always ask for what you want, because the worst thing that can happen is embarrassment but the best thing that can happen is nudity; to demand ready money up front; and to never play cards with Catarina Loss.

  Cassandra Clare

  Adventure, Loss, Sea

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2015). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

  Sarah Dessen

  Selfish, Lines, Way

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• Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by becoming hard or quarrelsome. She was still a girl, a slight lovely girl who lay in bed and ate chocolates, a girl whose hair smelled like hyacinth and whose scarves fluttered jauntily in the breeze. But strange and marvelous as she was, a wisp of silk in a forest of black wool, she was not the fragile creature one would have her seem.

  Donna Tartt

  Girl, Boys, Hair

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• She seemed like a creature made to attract everyone and express nothing real, though it would take a master observer, like Magnus, to know it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Made, Masters

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

  Terry Pratchett

  Summer, Real, Moving

  Terry Pratchett (1996). “Feet of Clay: A Novel of Discworld”, Harper Prism

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• The world is quieter now. It is never quiet, but it can get quieter. What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread. Nighttime is not that. Nighttime still rustles, still creaks and whispers and trembles in its throat. It is not darkness we fear, but our own helplessness within it. How merciful to have been granted the other senses.

  David Levithan

  Silence, Peaceful, Darkness

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• Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Jealousy, Perfect, Want

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• His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch's dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Dream, Home

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.144, Scholastic Inc.

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• sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.

  Franz Kafka

  Sleep, Men, Guilty

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Milena”, p.22, Schocken

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• When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a flickering sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only occasionally did I notice the chain on the finch's ankle, or think what a cruel life for a little living creature - fluttering briefly, forced always to land in the same hopeless place.

  Donna Tartt

  Thinking, Land, Forever

  "The Goldfinch". Book by Donna Tartt, 2013.

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• A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Angel

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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• In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

  Boethius

  Confidence, Ignorance, Men

  Boethius, Aeterna Press (2016). “Boethius Collection [2 Books]”, p.216, Aeterna Press

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Ignorance, Brave

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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