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• Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Smart, Grateful, Humble

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• But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.

  Hermann Hesse

  Teacher, Teaching, Goal

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• But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

  Joan Didion

  Dog, Men, Vanity

  Joan Didion (1968). “Slouching towards Bethlehem”

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• It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Life, Motivational, Moving On

  Kaye Gibbons (1997). “A Virtuous Woman”, p.25, Algonquin Books

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• To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Practice, Waiting

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hands, Liberty, Empty

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.69

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• Yes, when I get big and have my own home, no plush chairs and lace curtains for me. And no rubber plants. I'll have a desk like this in my parlor and white walls and a clean green blotter every Saturday night and a row of shining yellow pencils always sharpened for writing and a golden-brown bowl with a flower or some leaves or berries always in it and books . . . books . . . books. . . .

  Betty Smith

  Wall, Flower, Book

  Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

  George Orwell

  Party, Past, Expression

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

  Amy Sedaris

  Brother, Children, Women

  "Refined meets irreverent". Interview with Craig Nakano, articles.latimes.com. November 09, 2006.

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• And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing... this didn't change anything. I imagine her smelling clean, like tea.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Numbness, Tea, Imagine

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “American Psycho”, p.379, Vintage

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• Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Tasks, Cleaning, Endless

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• Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fall, Air, Axes

  The Lorax (1971)

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• It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Years, Weather, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.861, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bend down, bend down. Excess is the only ease, so bend. The sun is in the tree. Put your mouth on mine. Bend down beam & slash, for Dread is dreamed-up-scenes of what comes after death. Is being fled from what bends down in pain. The elbow bends in the brain, lifts the cup. The worst is yet to dream you up, so bend down the intrigue you dreamed. Flee the hayneedle in the brain's tree. Excess allures by leaps. Stars burn clean. Oriole bitches and gleams. Dread is the fear of being less forever. So bend. Bend down and kiss what you see.

  Stan Rice

  Dream, Stars, Pain

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• I was neat, clean, shaved and sober and I didn't care who knew it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Care, Sober, Big Sleep

  The Big Sleep (1939) ch. 1

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• Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.

  Carl Sandburg

  Happiness, Summer, Song

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.

  Raymond Chandler

  Morning, Writing, Typewriters

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• I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Sports, Morning, Golf

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1998). “The Great Gatsby”, p.42, OUP Oxford

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• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  Regret, House, Half

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• Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

  Arianna Huffington

  Jesus, Air, Safety

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• When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cities

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• There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Nice, Book

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.19, Random House

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• Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

  Junot Diaz

  Morning, Pieces, Paper

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wine, Weather, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Emerson: Poems”, p.36, Everyman's Library

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• Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

  Tsitsi Dangarembga

  Mother, Husband, Book

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