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• There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Women, Scarce

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• VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.

  Aleatha Romig

  Desire, Stories, Pages

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• New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  New York, Stars, Suicidal

  "The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Menachem Kaiser, www.newyorker.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Become enraptured by the sights and sounds in intrigue of nature and beauty, come along with me and take it all in. Come here my love.

  Van Morrison

  Philosophy, Sight, Sound

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• Woven through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique combinations of visual and emotional stimuli.His sense of space, light and composition combine to create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.

  Will Barnet

  Unique, Emotional, Light

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• There was reason for STILLMAN'S EXTREME SECRECY. HE WAS PREPARING TO EXTEND THE CITY BANK'S POWER OVER THE EARTH AND FULLY RECOGNIZED THAT THIS AMBITION WOULD DRAW HIM INTO THE WEB OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL INTRIGUE AND ESPIONAGE

  George B. Cortelyou

  Ambition, Cities, Earth

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• Dastardly devious, cleverly conceived, and just a whole lot of fun to read, DEATH PERCEPTION is Lee Allen Howard on fire and at his finest. Rife with winsome weirdness, it's like the mutant stepchild of Carl Hiaasen and Stephen King, mixing a truly unique paranormal coming-of-age story with a quirky cast of offbeat noir characters into a novel that's simply unforgettable... and hilariously original. A supernatural crime story, blazing with creative intrigue... don't miss it.

  Michael Arnzen

  Kings, Fun, Character

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• Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.

  Hallie Ephron

  Writing, Care, Interest

  Hallie Ephron (2005). “Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books

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• I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.

  Graeme Base

  Art, Fun, Book

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• I work for men that I would love to meet, somebody who I could fall in love with, someone who intrigues me.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Falling In Love, Fall, Men

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• CBS announced they're canceling As The World Turns. Don't worry though, if you're addicted to the twisted plots, the intrigue, the illicit sex, you can still watch golf.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Golf, Worry

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• If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Good Life, Practice

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”

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• If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Character, Names, People

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• Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beautiful, Plot, Add

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• In winter I like sprawling novels, full of conflict and intrigue, and during the bleakest, coldest days of December I holed up with Nicola Griffith 's Hild, a book of love and sex and war and religious upheaval, and I recommend it even over the warmest pair of Sorels.

  Maud Newton

  Religious, Sex, War

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• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Mean, Past

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• While the 2013 color of the year, PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald, served as a symbol of growth, renewal and prosperity, Radiant Orchid reaches across the color wheel to intrigue the eye and spark the imagination.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Eye, Color, Years

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• What really intrigues me is that the totality of all possible Nows of any definite kind has a very special structure. You can think of it as a landscape or country. Each point in the country is a Now.

  Julian Barbour

  Country, Thinking, Special

  "The End of Time". Interview with John Brockman, www.edge.org. August 15, 1999.

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• Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse... by Floyd Gottfredson will be warmly received by comics aficionados but should also intrigue Disney animation buffs who aren’t necessarily plugged into comic strip history... I have a feeling that this book, crafted with such obvious care, will earn Gottfredson a new legion of admirers.

  Leonard Maltin

  Book, Disney Animation, Feelings

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• My Aunt Marion used to always tell me 'a touch of sun adds an air of intrigue...'

  Tim Quinn

  Aunt, Air, Add

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• I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.

  Paula Cole

  Challenges, Naked, Way

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• The consequence of a very free commerce between the sexes, and of their living much together, will often terminate in intrigues and gallantry.

  David Hume

  Sex, Men, Together

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.487

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• If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably a worthy endeavor for you. You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

  Derek Sivers

  Passion, Thinking, Ideas

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• I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

  Emma Caulfield

  Fans, Scared, Film

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• My ultimate game - or at least one I would really like to see - would be something where it was like the beginning of George R. R. Martin's 'Game of Thrones', where you're Ned Stark, and you know that one of your friends has been murdered, and you go to the capital city and you have to navigate this web of court intrigue.

  Austin Grossman

  Cities, Games, Would Be

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