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I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.


Thomas Ligotti

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STEPHEN COLBERT Sometimes I wonder," Thomas murmured.
"Wonder what?"
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THOMAS HARDY Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supp...
CLARENCE THOMAS The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER I got a bronze medal and I can't complain about that, the only African-American to get a medal i...
DEBI THOMAS Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS #4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could u...
THOMAS FRIEDMAN When I hit 16, I got a scooter to ride to school. It was bright pink, and I saw on the ownership pap...
THOMAS SANGSTER Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.
THOMAS MANN The Iraqi sun quickly heated the air to an unbearable one
hundred twenty three degree’s, caus...
THOMAS FERREOLUS I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. I...
THOMAS KAIL My dad is one of my favorite human beings in the world. He's just a good person, and he could en...
THOMAS RHETT Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...
THOMAS WOLFE To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
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