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• She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Girl, Hands, Ordinary

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• He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Ordinary, World

  "The Last Song". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 1, 2009.

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• What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!

  Michael Pollan

  Civilization, People, Sick

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.11, Penguin

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• The situation was extraordinary. How someone like Evangeline Jenner could have wrought such a change in St. Vincent, the most worldly of men, was difficult to understand. However, Westcliff had learned that the mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Soulmate, Men, Two

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• Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.

  Peter Høeg

  Falling In Love, Reality, Break Through

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.49, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• The divine love of God turns ordinary acts into extraordinary service.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Ordinary, God Love, Divine

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• Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.

  Pat Conroy

  Keys, Solitude, Pay

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.80, Open Road Media

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• While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Past, Simple

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• I told him that I loved him and that I'd always love him and I felt like a child who throws a centavo into a fountain and then she has to tell someone her most extraordinary wish even though she knows that the wish should be kept secret and that, in telling it, she is quite probably losing it. He replied that I was not to worry, that the penny could come out of the fountain again and again and again.

  Colum McCann

  Children, Worry, Secret

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.239, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

  Pascal Mercier

  Children, Moving, Laughing

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Dog, Pain, Mistake

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Monologue of a Dog”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

  Adrienne Rich

  Heart, Age, World

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

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  Struggling and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not demanding more from yourself - expanding and learning as you go - you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Struggle, Essence

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Ordinary, Sad Truth, Corrections

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.197, Macmillan

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• It was going to be so much fun dragging his complacent sexual views out of the ordinary and into the extraordinary.

  Keri Arthur

  Fun, Views, Ordinary

  Keri Arthur (2006). “Full Moon Rising: A Riley Jenson Guardian Novel”, p.156, Bantam

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• If you like I'll be furious flesh elemental, or- changing to tones that the sunset arouses- if you like- I'll be extraordinary gentle, not a man but - a cloud in trousers.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sunset, Men, Clouds

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, “A Cloud In Trousers - Epilogue”

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• Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

  Sandra Brown

  Extraordinary Beauty, Pay, Fame

  Sandra Brown (2013). “French Silk”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• The extraordinary's the norm.

  Clive Barker

  Norm

  Clive Barker (2011). “The Great and Secret Show”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Stupid, Men

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “Arguably”, p.392, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [True beauty] seeps into you. It doesn't make you forget yourself, but totally the opposite. It connects you with everything and fills you with awe that you share the same space with something that glorious. Like a sunrise or a clear blue day or the most extraordinary piece of glass. And then suddenly...you have this epiphany that there's more to the world than just you and what you want or even who you are.

  Justina Chen

  Glasses, Blue, Opposites

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• I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Thinking, West Indies

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• The Color Of Extraordinary.

  Jandy Nelson

  Color

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• I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.

  Pittacus Lore

  Dream, Looks, Fool

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• The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other, the way she relaxes when you put your hand on her back, the way you both seem to know what the other is always thinking, it's always struck me as extraordinary. That's another reason I keep putting marriage off. I know I want something like what you two share, and I'm not sure I've found it yet. I'm not sure I ever will. And with love like that, they say anything's possible, right?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, Mean, Thinking

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• Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

  Aberjhani

  Reality, Dancing, Quality

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