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I wasn’t a nerd, mind you, but I’d spent a lot of my youth studying Epics, so I’d had limited experi...

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I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

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Charles BukowskiPlay the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

Ordinary people, she said, can see only a little bit. They can't change much or go any higher than t...

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It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

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Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now and Other Stories

One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, ...

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All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.'There are only six of ...

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There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in t...

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My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in ...

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Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....

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Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don't drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glo...

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You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Space only becomes ordinary when the frontier is no longer being breached.

Logan stopped and gazed skyward as the kite began to soar above them, and when he clapped his hands ...

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Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

Ordinary women never appeal to one's imagination.They are limited to their century. No glamour every...

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Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides ...

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Richard DawkinsUnweaving the Rainbow: Science

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar...

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I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental ar...

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Anne LamottGrace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

Holiness has most often been revealed to me in the exquisite pun of the first syllable, in holes- in...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith