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• Don't drop him," said Peter's mother to his father. "Don't you dare drop him." She was laughing. "I will not," said his father. "I could not." For he is Peter Augustus Duchene, and he will always return to me. Again and again, Peter's father threw him up in the air. Again and again, Peter felt himself suspended in nothingness for a moment, just a moment, and then he was pulled back, returned to the sweetness of the earth and the warmth of his father's waiting arms. "See?" said his father to his mother. "Do you see how he always comes back to me?

  Kate DiCamillo

  Mother, Father, Air

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• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Block, Sleep, Light

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

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• A message came from my youth of vanished days, saying, 'I wait for you among the quivering of unborn May, where smiles ripen for tears and hours ache with songs unsung.' It says, 'Come to me across the worn-out track of age, through the gates of death. For dreams fade, hopes fail, the fathered fruits of the year decay, but I am the eternal truth, and you shall meet me again and again in your voyage of life from shore to shore.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, Song, Years

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Lover's Gifts XL: A Message Came”

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• Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Giving Up, Trying, Succeed

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• Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.

  Lauren Oliver

  Spring, Heart, Skeletons

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.534, Hachette UK

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• So I left him there alone to watch history repeat the same events retold again and again on his own.

  Sarah Dessen

  Events, Watches, Repeating History

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Just Listen”, p.132, Penguin

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• Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Joy, Able, Pessimist

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Body, Want

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “To the Lighthouse”, p.175, Virginia Woolf

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• Drive Nature from your door with a pitchfork, and she will return again and again.

  Horace

  Doors, Return, Human Nature

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• Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, Fall, Getting Back Up

  "All Is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir". Book by Brennan Manning and John Blase, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2011.

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• Again and again parents describe...the trancelike nature of their children's television watching. The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth. The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look.

  Marie Winn

  Children, Eye, Television Watching

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• Themes recur again and again in my work.

  Eve Arnold

  Theme

  Eve Arnold (1976). “The Unretouched Woman”, Random House (NY)

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• People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

  Billy Boyd

  Mean, People, Funeral

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• I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Interest, Happens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Flow, Failing, Courses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

  C. S. Lewis

  Romance, Evidence, Reader

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• On the one hand, man is a body, in the same way that this may be said of every other animal organism. On the other hand, man has a body. That is, man experiences himself as an entity that is not identical with his body, but that, on the contrary, has that body at its disposal. In other words, man's experience of himself always hovers in a balance between being and having a body, a balance that must be redressed again and again.

  Peter L. Berger

  Animal, Men, Hands

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• People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Block, Grief, People

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• Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

  Tom Paxton

  Men, Leader, Politics

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• I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

  Bill Kurtis

  Vacation, Stories

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• All I want is moonlight, with you there inside of me, all night, doing it again and again. You know I want you so bad.

  Toni Braxton

  Sex, Night, Want

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• It's so fun to do theater, because as opposed to television, you just keep doing it again and again and again - every night. Sometimes it lands beautifully, and sometimes it lands just beside of it. It's like throwing a horseshoe. It's great fun.

  Missi Pyle

  Fun, Night, Land

  "Missi Pyle on Her Role in the Off-Broadway Rock Musical 'Bare'". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. January 4, 2013.

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• Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Giving

  "Two Secrets To A Better You" by Jack Canfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2009.

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• Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us to live.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Wisdom, Blessing, Issues

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.23, Penguin

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