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• I might have lost some skin, but I got kissed by a beautiful woman who was happy to see me. I gotta say that’s pretty epic in my book. Definitely not a worst-case day here.” – Sundown

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Beautiful, Book, Skins

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• Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

  Wendell Johnson

  Funny, Witty, Educational

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• When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

  Isaac Asimov

  Atheist, Science, Thinking

  "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1996.

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• A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Time, Doctors, Jewels

  'The Princess' (1847) pt. 2, l. 352

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• So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

  Laini Taylor

  Italian, Talking, Sandwiches

  Laini Taylor (2017). “Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella”, p.126, Hachette UK

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• Thats all I need. To find a soul mate to share my life with. To have a love so epic it will never die.

  Susane Colasanti

  Soul, Needs, Share

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “All I Need”, p.9, Penguin

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• Augustus Waters was the great star-crossed love of my life. Ours was an epic love story, and I won’t be able to get more than a sentence into it without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.

  John Green

  Stars, Real, Love Of My Life

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.168, Penguin UK

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• They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn’t back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It’s good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Doors, Dating

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• In that six months, so much happened that death seemed, primarily, inconvenient. The trial period was extended. I seem to keep extending it. There are many things to do. There are books to write and naps to take. There are movies to see and scrambled eggs to eat. Life is essentially trivial. You either decide you will take the trite business of life and give yourself the option of doing something really cool, or you decide you will opt for the Grand Epic of eating disorders and dedicate your life to being seriously trivial.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Book, Writing, Naps

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  Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life Changing, Power, Silence

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• Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Motivational, Inspiring, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 23, 2012

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• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  Laini Taylor

  Pain, Terrible, Testing

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• Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"   "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"   "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• I don't mess around with the men in the coven, especially my Shadowblades," she said with quiet finality. Flirting was one thing but anything more, it was a mistake of epic proportions. His eyes narrowed and he gave a slow shake of his head. "That is all right then. Because I want so much more than just to mess around.

  Diana Pharaoh Francis

  Mistake, Eye, Flirting

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• Absence - that common cure of love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Funny, Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder

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• I love all things Queen - their songs are epic storytelling.

  Nina Arianda

  Song, Queens, Storytelling

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• This celebration of The Bible will inspire people around the world to rediscover a beloved text in new ways. This is a passion project nurtured with love and care by Mark Burnett, Roma Downey and the entire creative team. I was thoroughly impressed by the deep faith expressed throughout this epic series.

  Craig Detweiler

  Team, Passion, People

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• The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.

  Lindsey Shaw

  Sports, Etc, Helping

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• Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

  Dianna Agron

  Halloween, Tunes, Hunts

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Oct 29, 2012

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• God is telling an amazing, glorious, epic story. We have to decide if we will trust Him with it.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Stories, Glorious, Ifs

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• Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

  Chris Klein

  Sports, Swimming, Awards

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• There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Relief, Way, Said

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• The fact that a total of 18 musicians humbly came together to share the glory and create something this original, epic, and downright heavy, is a feat worthy of deep respect.

  James Moore

  Together, Musician, Facts

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• Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.

  Kevin McKidd

  Machines, Grey, Shows

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• I'm a big John Steinbeck fan. Cormac McCarthy. I've always loved the stories of regular people. Mark Twain, too. When you look back at some of the epic writers of our country's history, very rarely do you find upper-class royalty. We seem to delve into the struggle of life and the labor of life much more frequently.

  Lucas Neff

  Country, Struggle, Class

  "Raising Hope's Lucas Neff on starting stand-up and how his show apes The Simpsons". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. February 5, 2013.

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