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• I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Deliverance, Kind, Hungry

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• We are always trying to convert people to a belief in our own explanation of the universe. We think that the more people there are who believe as we do, the more certain it will be that what we believe is the truth. But it doesn't work that way at all.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Thinking, Always Trying

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• Everything‟s fine,” I said, with a tight smile. “Kiyo was just giving me his latest explanation about how my son is a terror to be feared.” Dorian scoffed. “Little Thundro? A terror? Hardly, unless perhaps we‟re discussing diapers.

  Richelle Mead

  Son, Giving, Littles

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• A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

  Wendell Berry

  Light, Tree, Answers

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• Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

  Haruki Murakami

  Book, Mean, Logic

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• And this lesson about mortal peace of mind I never forgot. Even if a ghost is ripping a house to pieces, throwing in pans all over, pouring water of pillows, making clocks chime at all hours, mortal will accept almost any "natural explanation" offered, no matter how absurd, rather than the obvious supernatural one, for what is going on.

  Anne Rice

  Water, House, Mind

  Anne Rice (2011). “The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned”, p.733, Ballantine Books

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• You're English," he said. "And I will therefore make certain allowances for you. I realize you don't understand you shouldn't argue with me, and so I'll explain it to you. Don't argue with me." Incredulous, she said, "That's it? 'Don't argue with me' is your explanation as to why I shouldn't argue with you?

  Julie Garwood

  Arguing, Realizing, Allowance

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Ransom”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name. The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.

  Bernard Beckett

  Believe, Names, Media

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.

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• To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

  Agatha Christie

  Weakness, Excuse

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• Pain is strong, aye - but friends' eyes, more strong." I told him that he knows next to nothing about me & I know nothing about him. He jabbed at his eyes & jabbed at mine, as if that single gesture were ample explanation.

  David Mitchell

  Strong, Pain, Eye

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• You wear nice clothes, you seek respect, you make a lot of money, but what's the point? It's all pointless. Of course, this kind of meaninglessness might suit this crappy nation. But, you see, we still have emotions like joy and happiness, right? They may not mount to much. But they fill up our emptiness. That's the only explanation I have.

  Koushun Takami

  Nice, Clothes, Joy

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• We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Talking, Needed, Feels

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.13, Beacon Press

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• Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Desire, Want, Firsts

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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• As he looked up at the clouds or down at the precipice, he realized that this woman was the most important thing in his life; that she was the explanation, the sole reason for the existence of those rocks, that sky, that winter. If she were not there with him, it wouldn't matter if all the angels of heaven came flying down to comfort him--Paradise would make no sense.

  Paulo Coelho

  Angel, Winter, Clouds

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• I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe. It was haunted. The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.

  D. J. MacHale

  Home, House, World

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is not our only motive; love or grief or despair or hatred is what drives us on. We'll spy relentlessly on the dead; we'll open their letters, we'll read their journals, we'll go through their trash, hoping for a hint, a final word, an explanation, from those who have deserted us--who've left us holding the bag, which is often a good deal emptier than we'd supposed.

  Margaret Atwood

  Grief, Flames, Hands

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• I don't need any explanation about what you do with your life. You and I...we grew up together,and that's it. Yeah, we shared a lot of stuff back then, and we were there for each other when it mattered. But neither one of us can fit into the clothes we used to wear , and this relationship between us is just the same. It doesn't fit in our lives any longer. We don't...fit anymore. And listen., I didn't mean to get pissy in the truck, but I think you need to be clear on this. You and I? We have a past. That's it. That's ...all we'll ever have" (Blay to Qhuinn).

  J.R. Ward

  Mean, Past, Thinking

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• He who believes needs no explanation.

  Euripides

  Believe, Needs

  Euripides (2002). “Bacchai”, Oberon Books

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• Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day--without relief or explanation.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Morning, Relief, Found

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Writing, Hands, Hot

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.283, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their relationship would take a lot of hard work and dedication. But it had simply happened. No explanation. No cataclysmic event or earth-shattering revelation brought on by some external event. It had simply happened.

  Maya Banks

  Hard Work, Dedication, Doubt

  Maya Banks (2013). “Forged in Steele”, Penguin

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• Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

  Susan Cain

  Block, Stupid, Ideas

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

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• I should’ve been furious, but for some reason I wasn’t. Maybe because I knew he was telling the truth. Maybe because Voron left me just like that, without the much-needed explanations. Maybe because things I had learned about him since his death had made me doubt everything he’d ever said to me. Whatever the case, I felt only a hollow, crushing sadness. How touching. I understood my adoptive father’s killer. Maybe after this was over, Hugh’s head and I could sing “Kumbaya” together by the fire.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crush, Father, Sadness

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.85, Penguin

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• ...if you ask me whether or not I'm an atheist, I wouldn't even answer. I would first want an explanation of what it is that I'm supposed not to believe in, and I've never seen an explanation.

  Noam Chomsky

  Atheist, Believe, Answers

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• Truth is truth, not the explanations of Truth. Truth is a living, moving process. Truth is constantly undulating and vibrating. You can become one with the Truth, but you cannot adequately explain it.

  Ilchi Lee

  Moving, Truth Is, Process

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from May 28, 2014

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