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• Oh my God," Maddie whispered, horrified. "I rented him that boat. Does that make me a murderer?" Tara's heart clutched. "He's not dead yet." "Hurry," Maddie called to Ford. "I can't be the one who killed Tara's ex!" I look terrible in orange!

  Jill Shalvis

  Heart, Orange, Looks

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Fun, Games

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• Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Evil, Sound

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• However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Beautiful, Mean, Forgiving

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• Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Trying, World, Way

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• Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

  Epictetus

  Men, Good Man, Done

  Epictetus “The Golden Sayings of Epictetus”, Lulu.com

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• Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mean, Creating, Emotion

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Studies in Words”, p.317, Cambridge University Press

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• And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

  Veronica Roth

  Boys, Kind, Near Death

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• Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as a Buddhist, whether you believe in reincarnation or not does not matter so much. You must lead a good life. And a good life does not mean just good food, good clothes, good shelter. These are not sufficient. A good motivation is what is needed: compassion, without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their rights and human dignity.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Brother, Buddhist

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• Clever is as clever does.

  Tony DiTerlizzi

  Clever

  Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi (2013). “Lucinda's Secret”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no one ever does that. It's totally illegal, for one thing, and besides, why would you want to?" Aline, Isabelle thought, did not have much imagination. She herself could think of lots of reasons why someone might want to climb the demon towers, if only to spit gum down on passerbys below.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Imagination

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

  Howard Zinn

  Ifs, Our Lives, Pointless

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.201, Beacon Press

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• He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

  Lev Grossman

  Quests

  Lev Grossman (2011). “The Magician King: A Novel”, p.251, Penguin

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• Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire.

  Noam Chomsky

  Appreciation, Art, Reading

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• Darling, a true lady takes off her dignity with her clothes and does her whorish best. At other times you can be as modest and dignified as your persona requires.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sex, Clothes, Dignity

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.234, Penguin

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• Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Loneliness, Worry, Life Is

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• Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Misery

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• ...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Children, Wall

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• You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Special, Ordinary

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• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Horse, War, Butterfly

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• I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!

  Michael Morpurgo

  Crazy, War, Fighting

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens

  Shannon Hale

  Falling In Love, Mean, Sometimes

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Midnight in Austenland”, p.251, A&C Black

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• The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love.

  Paul Eluard

  Body, Flesh, Language

  Paul Eluard, “At The Window”

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• It’s sad, y’know, what money does to people.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  People, Knows

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