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• The warrior (Zsadist) rolled his black eyes. "Come on, man. What does it matter to me? You, Tohr. Britney Spears.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Warrior, Men

  J. R. Ward (2011). “Dark Lover: Number 1 in series”, p.287, Hachette UK

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• You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

  Paul Bowles

  Wall, Dark, Hair

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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• And now listen carefully. You in others-this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life-your soul, your immortality, your life in others. And what now? You have always been in others and you will remain in others. And what does it matter to you if later on that is called your memory? This will be you-the you that enters the future and becomes a part of it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Memories, Soul, Matter

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• But don't you see, all human decisions are made like this. Do you think the mother knows what will happen to the child in her womb? Dear God, we are lost, I tell you. What does it matter if you give it to me and it's wrong! There is no wrong! There is only desperation, and I would have it! I want to live forever with you.

  Anne Rice

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.1263, Ballantine Books

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• What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'

  C. S. Lewis

  Father, Long, Heaven

  "A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works".

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• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  Albert Camus

  Beautiful, Liars, Lying

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• Whoever's reading this, if anyone is reading it: does it matter that our old selves are lost to us as surely as the past is lost, or is it enough to know yes we lived then, and we are living now, and the connection must be there? Like a river hundreds of miles long exists both at its source and at its mouth, simultaneously?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reading, Past, Self

  Joyce Carol Oates (1993). “Foxfire: confessions of a girl gang”, E P Dutton

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• Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Matter, Doe, Prozac Nation

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Does it matter how long they were together that night? To lovers, an hour can last a century. But even for lovers, every hour ends.

  Scott Snyder

  Night, Long, Together

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• Whoa, Dimitri," I said, tossing my bag on the floor. "I realize this is actually a current hit in Eastern Europe right now, but do you think we could maybe listen to something that wasn't recorded before I was born?” Only his eyes flicked toward me; the rest of his posture remained the same. "What does it matter to you? I'm the one who's going to be listening to it. You'll be outside running.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Eye, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.53, Penguin

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• If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

  James Franco

  Long, Doe, Why Not

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• What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

  Henry Miller

  Truth, Lying, Long

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

  Pierre Corneille

  Truth, Long, Matter

  "Character: Nicomède". "Nicomède" by Pierre Corneille, act I, scene ii, 1651.

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• How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?

  Thornton Wilder

  Hate, Rip, House

  "Fictional character: Uncle Charlie Oakley". "Shadow of a Doubt", en.wikiquote.org. 1943.

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• Keep going don't worry about results. If you love it why does it matter?

  Dom Kennedy

  Worry, Results, Ifs

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• Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Doe, Matter, Ends

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• Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Hands, Long

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

  Sitting Bull

  Prayer, Long, Doe

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• Well, I never been to HeavenBut I been to OklahomaWell, they tell me I was born thereBut I really don't rememberIn Oklahoma, not ArizonaWhat does it matter, what does it matter?

  Hoyt Axton

  Oklahoma, Doe, Matter

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• There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That word—tension—has an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other end—is the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?

  John Jeremiah Sullivan

  Fall, Writing, Animal

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• What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

  Jean Racine

  War, Blood, Violence

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• What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!--And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Laughter, Laughing, Doe

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• The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of teaching itself. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.

  John Lubbock

  Education, Children, Hate

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• Does it matter, when you read, if the person who wrote still lives?

  Michael Gruber

  Stills, Still Life, Persons

  Michael Gruber (2009). “The Book of Air and Shadows: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• And yet I am happy. Yes, happy. I swear. I swear that I am happy...What does it matter that I am a bit cheap, a bit foul, and that no one appreciates all the remarkable things about me-my fantasy, my erudition, my literary gift...I am happy that I can gaze at myself, for any man is absorbing-yes, really absorbing! ... I am happy-yes, happy!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Men, Appreciate, Doe

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