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It was the scale, the extremity of things here that made an impression on her: the two beds in their double room that could comfortably sleep three people each; the throaty clunking of the machine down the corridor that ejected fat glinting ice cubes, tumbling like coins from a jackpotting fruit machine; the toothache temperature of the Cokes from the mini bar (she had never known drinks to be so cold); the improbable proportions of the cars on the freeway; the sleek gleefulness of the morning TV presenters with drawls so sassy they sounded put on; the enormity of the breakfasts and the people who ate them. America seemed souped-up to JoAnne, as though it had to be bigger, better, colder, hotter, cheerier, louder, just all-round "er" than everywhere else. — Tina Seskis

Is that cowboy logic? — Shelly Crane

There is no treasure like the human heart. — Jocelyn Murray

I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it. — Marcel Proust

When you truly sing, you sing yourself free. When you truly dance, you dance yourself free. When you walk in the mountains or swim in the sea, again, you set yourself free. — Jay Woodman

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes. — J.K. Rowling

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery. — James Forten

There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before; and Ramon Alonzo in the shade of his oak, waiting for the noon to go by, grew very contemptuous of the attitude that the world took up towards shadows. — Lord Dunsany

You start wanting to see a different place every day. — Shannon Hoon

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear. — Morrissey

That's better." He looks at me and smiles. "It's easier to handle if you're not pussy footing around on the power. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices. — Irvin D. Yalom

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. — Bill Veeck

The Psalms foretell what I, what any shall do and suffer and say. — John Donne