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The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal. ↗

— Louise Brown

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God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. ↗

— Martin Buber

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The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ↗

— Joan Didion

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. ↗

— George Haven Putnam

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I live and love in God's peculiar light. ↗

— Michelangelo

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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns. ↗

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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