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• In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn't until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.

  John McCain

  Country, Appreciation, Simple

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• Well, life isn't a cakewalk, is it?! Eighty-nine percent of the world's most valuable art was created by men living in rat-infested flats. You think Velásquez wore Adidas? You think he enjoyed the luxuries of central heating and twenty-four-hour pizza delivery?!

  Marisha Pessl

  Art, Men, Thinking

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.432, Penguin UK

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• It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own healthy inheritance of original sin comes out in the book and I enjoyed raping and ripping by proxy. It is the novelist’s innate cowardice that makes him depute to imaginary personalities the sins that he is too cautious to commit for himself.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Writing, Personality

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• Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Discipline, People, Way

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2001). “Flow: the psychology of optimal experience”

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• she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

  Jane Austen

  Strong, Feelings, Taste

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 11

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• Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Winning, Men, Long

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• I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind “refreshingly honest,” and hailed Marc’s temper as “a deep protective instinct.” He said Ethan “thoroughly enjoyed life,” and that Parker “really knew how to have a good time.” According to Owen, we were all doing just fine, and all was right with the world.

  Rachel Vincent

  Character, Mind, World

  Rachel Vincent (2016). “Rogue”, p.230, MIRA

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• There was no pretention here, no hidden meanings in the phrases they spoke, no elaborate plans designed to impress the other. Though it had always been easy to spend time with Mike, she suddenly realized that in the whirlwind of the past couple of weeks, she'd almost forgot how much she enjoyed it.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Couple, Past, Phrases

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• The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Reality, Accepted, Penalties

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.27, Macmillan

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• If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

  Charles Nodier

  Different, Stories, Littles

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• From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Laughter, Spring

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• The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

  John Piper

  Our Generation, Leisure Activities, Heaven

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• Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cursed this power. I've both enjoyed and misused it. And I've hidden it away. Now I must try to wield it correctly, to marry it to a purpose and hope that is enough.

  Libba Bray

  Fighting, Trying, Purpose

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.501, Simon and Schuster

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• The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Secrets had an immense attraction to him, because he never could keep one, and he enjoyed the sort of unhallowed thrill he experienced when he went and told another animal, after having faithfully promised not to.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Animal, Secret, Thrill

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.2578, e-artnow

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• you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes

  Margaret Weis

  Thinking, Color, Quit Smoking

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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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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• You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Differences, Gossip, People

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.321, Macmillan

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• Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Thanksgiving, Blessing, Thankful To God

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• Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

  Gail Carriger

  Lord, Advantage, Shelves

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• We star-crossed lovers of District 12, who suffered so much and enjoyed so little the rewards of our victory, do not seek our fans' favor, grace them with our smiles, or catch their kisses. We are unforgiving. And I love it. Getting to be myself at last.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stars, Kissing, Grace

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.212, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Exercise, Rights

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.93

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• But what Dakota most enjoyed about the beginning of winter was the crispness of the air (that practically demanded the wearing of knits) and the way that tough New Yorkers - on the street, in elevators, in subways - were suddenly willing to risk a smile. To make a connection with a stranger. To finally see one another after strenuously avoiding eye contact all year.

  Kate Jacobs

  Christmas, Eye, Winter

  Kate Jacobs (2009). “Knit the Season”, p.8, Penguin

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• It's like the smell of burned toast. You made the toast. You looked forward to it. You even enjoyed making it, but it burned. What were you doing? Was it your fault? It doesn't matter anymore. You open the window, but only the very top layer of the smell goes away. The rest remains around you. It's the walls. You leave the room, but it's on your clothes. You change your clothes, but it's in your hair. It's on the thin skin on the tops of your hand. And in the morning, it's still there.

  Elliot Perlman

  Morning, Wall, Hair

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