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• Most people call it The Book of the Dead,” he told me. “Rich Egyptians were always buried with a copy, so they could have directions through the Duat to the Land of the Dead. It’s like an Idiot’s Guide to the Afterlife.

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Land, Afterlife

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I am all emptiness and futility. I am an empty stranger, a carbon copy of my form. I can no longer find what I'm looking for outside of myself. It doesn't exist out there. Maybe it's only in here, inside my head. But my head is glass and my eyes have stopped being cameras, the tape has run out and nobody's words can touch me.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Running, Eye, Glasses

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• I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

  Jacqueline Susann

  Wind, Library, Gone

  Jacqueline Susann (2016). “Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, People, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.159, Wordsworth Editions

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• When we lost something precious, and we'd looked and looked and still couldn't find it, then we didn't have to be completely heartbroken. We still had that last bit of comfort, thinking one day, when we grow up, and we were free to travel around the counry, we would always go and find it in Norfolk...And that's why years and years later, that day Tommy and I found another copy of that lost tape of mine in a town on the Norfolk coast, we didn't just think it pretty funny; we both felt deep down some tug, some old wish to believe again in something that was once close to our hearts.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Heartbroken, Growing Up, Believe

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• I grabbed another. Aerosmith. Nope, can’t throw classic Aerosmith. I snatched a copy of the Thompson Twins’ greatest hits and chucked it at him.

  Rachel Vincent

  Twins, Classic, Aerosmith

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.226, MIRA

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• It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Children, Loneliness, Needs

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• Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Passion, Men

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• the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Might, Lasts, Ends

  Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1960.

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• REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Work, Skills

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.300, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

  Jodie Foster

  Doubt, Individual, Carbon

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• You mustn't expect me to repeat myself. My past doesn't interest me. I would rather copy others than copy myself. In that way I should at least be giving them something new. I love discovering things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Past, Discovery, Giving

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• A bit of advice, don't copy nature too closely. Art is an abstraction; as you dream amid nature, extrapolate art from it, and concentrate on what you will create as a result.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Art, Advice

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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• Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Jesus, Believe, Records

  Dinesh D'Souza (2008). “What's So Great about Christianity”, Tyndale House Pub

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• It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Education, Chance, Teach

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• "I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I think the crop will be poor." Ignoring her remark, the editor caused to be inserted in the evening paper his estimate of the crop situation. That night when he returned home he found the housekeeper waiting for him with a sheepish grin on her face and a copy of the paper in her hand. "I was wrong," she said apologetically. "It says right here in the paper that the crop will be excellent this fall."

  James Keller

  Morning, Fall, Home

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• Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.

  J. C. Ryle

  Christ

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• Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Great Writers

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• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  People, Copying, Painting

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• My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.

  Tamara de Lempicka

  Goal, Style

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• For me, skateboarding started in 1965, so by the time the Dogtown era came around I'd already been skatin' for 10 years. When I started it was clay wheels and mostly home made decks. We were just trying to copy surfing. Everything about skateboarding had to do with surfing. It was all about fun and a way to surf when the waves were shitty.

  Jay Adams

  Fun, Home, Years

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• It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Successful, People, Copying

  "Q&A: Jesse Eisenberg's Best Role Yet". Interview with Calum March, www.esquire.com. September 10, 2013.

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• A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the author.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Doe, Favour

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.288

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• The American press is, and always has been, a booster press, its editorial pages characteristically advancing the same arguments as the paid advertising copy.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Media, Pages, Advertising

  Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”

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