Date: 1854
"Remembrances of how she had journeyed to the little that she knew, by the enchanted roads of what she and millions of innocent creatures had hoped and imagined; of how, first coming upon Reason through the tender light of Fancy, she had seen it a beneficent god, deferring to gods as great as its...
preview | full record— Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Date: 1854
"It lay there, warming into life a crowd of gentler thoughts; and she rested"
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Date: 1860
"Here, then, was a secret of life that would enable her to renounce all other secrets - here was a sublime height to be reached without the help of outward things - here was insight, and strength, and conquest, to be won by means entirely within her own soul, where a supreme teacher was waiting t...
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Date: 1992
"Whenever she thought of what she was meant to say, it seemed to dash around the corner, and lose itself in the crowd of things she should not say. The most successful fugitives were often the dullest, the sentences that nobody notices until they are not spoken: 'How nice to see you...won't you s...
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"There was only one thing left to do: that authentic-sounding flush with which every junkie leaves a bathroom, hoping to deceive the audience that crowds his imagination"
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Date: 1992
"His thoughts, anticipating themselves hopelessly, stuttered in the starting blocks, and brought his feeling of fluency dangerously close to silence."
preview | full record— Edward St. Aubyn (b. 1960)
Date: 1992
"Every thought or hint of a thought took on a personality stronger than his own."
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Date: 1992
"Nancy wondered, in her husky inner voice which, even in the deepest intimacy of her own thoughts, was turned to address a large and fascinated audience."
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Date: 2000
"It's the medium-sized thoughts that jump ship in an emergency."
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Date: 2000
"I dread the prospect of the pressure of death roaming through my psyche like a wildcat prospector and producing these eruptions of unwelcome insight."
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