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• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  Betty MacDonald

  Christian, Witty, Breathing

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  Deb Caletti

  Weed, Mother, Fate

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• There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

  Clive Barker

  Art, Life And Love, Band

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Nov 02, 2012

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• In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

  Joss Whedon

  Darkness, Vampire, Generations

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• A people that has remained convinced of its greatness and invulnerability, that has chosen to believe such a myth in the face of all the evidence, is a people in the grip of a kind of sleep, or madness.

  Salman Rushdie

  Believe, Sleep, Greatness

  "The Satanic Verses". Book by Salman Rushdie, September, 1988.

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• Your soul is a chosen landscape Where charming masked and costumed figures go Playing the lute and dancing and almost Sad beneath their fantastic disguises. All sing in a minor key Of all-conquering love and careless fortune They do not seem to believe in their happiness And their song mingles with the moonlight. The still moonlight, sad and beautiful, Which gives the birds to dream in the trees And makes the fountain sprays sob in ecstasy, The tall, slender fountain sprays among the marble statues.

  Paul Verlaine

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• They will not be pleased. But they know we must catch the monsoon with a well-found ship; and they know they are in the Navy--they have chosen their cake, and must lie on it.' You mean, they cannot have their bed and eat it.' No, no, it is not quite that either. I mean--I wish you would not confuse my mind, Stephen.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Mean, Cake

  Patrick O'Brian (1991). “H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.204, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The question the doubter does not ask is whether faith was really useless or simply not used. What would you think of a boy who gave up learning to ride a bicycle, complaining that he hurt himself because his bicycle stopped moving so he had no choice but to fall off? If he wanted to sit comfortably while remaining stationary, he should not have chosen a bicycle but a chair. Similarly faith must be put to use, or it will become useless.

  Os Guinness

  Hurt, Moving, Fall

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• ...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

  Alan Bennett

  Reading, Writing, Impossible

  Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.20, Faber & Faber

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• I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just-" Lily: "Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.

  J. K. Rowling

  Death Eaters, Years, Too Late

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• Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

  Henry Miller

  Way, Realizing, Better Life

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

  Markus Zusak

  Answers, World, Care

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.41, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Taken, Mind, Belief

  C. S. Lewis (2001). “The Wisdom of Narnia”, HarperCollins

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• She was chosen,' Mae insists. No, you're wrong,' I say. 'She was only a girl.'... She was gone for some time. You were the only force that kept her from turning completely. That's magic. Perhaps the most powerful I've seen.' -In response to Felicity's love for Pippa keeping her from turning into a Winterland creature.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Powerful, Magic

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• the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of the people who make up the Church, they are inseparable. Therefore, a slogan that was popular some years back, 'Jesus yes, Church no,' is totally inconceivable with the intention of Christ. This individualistically chosen Jesus is an imaginary Jesus.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Years, Guarantees That

  Pope Benedict XVI (2016). “Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Church”, p.8, Ignatius Press

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• If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Doubt, Path

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-defeating Thinking Habits”, p.63, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very great fire in you. You will be on fire because you have chosen as your love object something impossible. You will have to weep and cry, and you will have to pray, and you will have to fast, and your mind has to continuously repeat and remember the beloved.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Heart, Fire

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• The longest journey
  Is the journey inwards.
  Of him who has chosen his destiny,
  Who has started upon his quest
  For the source of his being.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Past, Journey, Destiny

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Atheist, Offering, Interesting

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• I come from under the hill, and under the hills and over the hills my paths led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen. I am the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number. I am he that buries his friends alive and drowns them and draws them alive again from the water. I came from the end of a bag, but no bag went over me. I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Air, Eagles, Numbers

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• Parry Otter, the Chosen Boy Who - well - something of that sort.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Otters, Wells

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• People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.

  Martha Graham

  People, Dancer

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

  Jen Lancaster

  Summer, Teenager, Night

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• We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pay, Remember, Sin

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Avatar”, p.423, Pan Macmillan

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• The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting God to plague his creature, per pro his chosen shits. I've swallowed three hooks and am still hungry. Hence the howls. What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but strech out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for eternity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Long, Water, Joy

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