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• I’ve never enjoyed myself more than I have the past forty-eight hours, during which I’ve been trapped in a car with one of the worst drivers I’ve ever seen, run up the Spanish Steps and then down again so I could be on time to wait in line to perjuer myself at the American consulate. And I’d like to continue doing those sorts of thing with you on a regular basis for the foreseeable future.

  Meg Cabot

  Running, Past, Eight

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Every Boy's Got One”, p.321, Zondervan

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• I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace. Who said that peace derives from the contemplation of order, order understood, enjoyed, realized without residuum, in joy and truimph, the end of effort? All is clear, limpid; the eye rests on the whole and on the parts and sees how the parts have conspired to make the whole; it perceives the center where the lymph flows, the breath, the root of the whys.

  Umberto Eco

  Eye, Order, Roots

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.639, Random House

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• After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.

  Susan Minot

  Should Have, Perspective, Would Be

  Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage

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• Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.

  Anne Tyler

  People, Good Movie, Watches

  Anne Tyler (2009). “Noah's Compass: A Novel”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

  Jasper Fforde

  Laughing, Survival, Cracks

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• The thread of will-they-or-won't-they was the real driver of every word and glance and shift of body. So...this was a date, Blay thought. A subtextual negotiation slipcovered in talk of books read and music enjoyed.

  J.R. Ward

  Real, Book, Body

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• She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.

  Annie Ernaux

  World, Reason, Made

  Annie Ernaux (1995). “Frozen Woman”

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• I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal energy. He enjoyed food and drink. He liked to try new things. He brought home coconuts, papayas, mangoes, and urged them on our reluctant conservative selves. On Sundays he liked to discover new places, take us on endless bus or trolley rides to some new park or beach he knew about. He always counseled daring, in whatever situation, the courage to test the unknown, an instruction that was thematically in opposition to my mother’s.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Mother, Beach, Children

  E.L. Doctorow (2010). “World's Fair: A Novel”, p.15, Random House

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• There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Feet, Support, Compromise

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I have already enjoyed too much; give me something to desire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Desire, Too Much

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hero

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Personality Development”, p.47, Advaita Ashrama

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• In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

  Yann Martel

  Taken, Years, Broken

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• For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

  George Orwell

  Running, Ignorance, Thinking

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Tree, Dawn, Done

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

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• I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted : and this gave me sometimes such secret comforts, that I cannot express them ; and which I take notice of here, to put those discontented people in mind of it, who cannot enjoy comfortably what God has given them, because they see and covet something that he has not given them. All our discontents about what we want appeared to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

  Daniel Defoe

  Spring, Dark, People

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.129, e-artnow

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• Anita can speak for herself," Richard said. Jean-Claude's attention flicked back to me. "That is certainly true. But I came to see how the two of you enjoyed the play." "And pigs fly," I said. "You don't believe me?" "Not hardly," I said.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Believe, Pigs, Play

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.39, Penguin

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• Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reading, People, Theatre

  Arnold Bennett (1974). “Arnold Bennett: the Evening standard years: "Books and persons" 1926-1931”, Shoe String Pr Inc

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• I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

  Charlaine Harris

  Patches

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1456, Penguin

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• Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Loneliness, Solitude, Jamie

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Master of the Game”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one.

  Marlon Brando

  Book, Height

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• Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?

  Gustave Flaubert

  Dream, Imagination, Pleasure

  Gustave Flaubert (1967). “Intimate notebook, 1840-1841”

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• Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy wearing wasn't, and if he was too stubborn and old fashioned to understand that, he could go and soak his head in a bucket of cold water. He hadn't quite forgiven her yet for saying they would have to look hard to find a bucket big enough to fit his head in to, but he admired the sass behind the remark.

  Anne Bishop

  Water, Lectures, Sass

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• They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you...he adores you." Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Mom, Fun, Real

  Karen Kingsbury (2010). “Take Two”, p.58, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1603, Delphi Classics

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• They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.

  Ellen Potter

  Children, Lying, Kids

  Ellen Potter (2010). “The Kneebone Boy”, p.81, Macmillan

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