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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. Claude McKay

Plants Development Thwarted Like Overshadowed Human Nations Human Beings Beings Grow

'Balthazar' is very much about the title hero having to choose between his past and his future. For the first time in a long time, he has a chance to be happy - with Skye. But he has this terrible tendency to set himself up for heartbreak, in part because he punishes himself for his past. Claudia Gray

Future Time Be Happy Happy Hero Long Long Time First Past About Having Tendency He Part Between Terrible Himself Because First Time His Up Very Heartbreak Title Much Choose Chance Set

We said, there's another second gone, there's another minute and another hour and another day, when, as a matter of fact the second or the minute or the hour was never gone. It was the same one all the time. It had just moved along and we had moved with it. Clifford D. Simak

Time Day Matter Gone Minute Fact Never Had Along Hour Another Another Day Said Same Just Moved Second

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe. Clifford D. Simak

Future Time Single Past Universe Stretched Medium Way No Future Except Never-Ending Bracket Itself Infinite Either Each Extending Phase Number

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself. Clifton Fadiman

Sense Of Humor Humor Joke Sense Ability Oneself Understand

A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage. Clint Smith

Walk Inside Someone Cage Around Still

To be clear, affirmative action is not, by itself, an adequate response to decades of systemic looting, but it has been an indispensible tool in inching us towards some semblance of a more equitable society. Clint Smith

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night. Clive Barker

Day Wanted Brighten Ever Night

Neil Gaiman is a star. He constructs stories like some demented cook might make a wedding cake, building layer upon layer, including all kinds of sweet and sour in the mix. Clive Barker

There is no greater unknown than the sea and no greater mystery than a lost ship. Clive Cussler

Lost Unknown Mystery Greater Ship Than Sea

I was born about 80 years too late. If you were a kid in 1910, the Fourth of July was a big deal. You knew all about the Revolution, and you still had Civil War veterans. Clive Cussler

I can't retire. My readers won't let me. Clive Cussler

Me Retire Readers

I'm always interested in something that's missing. Clive Cussler

Something Missing Always Interested

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right. Clive James

Rude Chess Balls Whoever Right

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. Colin Wilson

Change World Mind Power Exactly Exactly The Same Merely Hands Same Grasp

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. D. H. Lawrence

Somewhere Edge Bound Over Jumps Land

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence

Life Better Live Repetition Repetitions Than Die

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. Lawrence

Needs Soul Beauty More Than Human Bread Human Soul Actual

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. D. H. Lawrence

Death Complete Forgetting Human Human Consciousness Really Even Consciousness

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. D. H. Lawrence

War Peace Imminent Propaganda Seem Makes Loud

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. D. H. Lawrence

Love God Easily Folks Know How To Love Why

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