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• You can't run with vampires. 'Cuz they're fast." -Bella "Yea? well, we're faster.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Running, Vampire, Cuz

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• You know how teachers tell you the magic word is 'please'? That's not true. The magic word is 'puke'. It will get you out of class faster than anything else.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Class, Magic

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• You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure youo didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's waht you were born for.

  Orson Scott Card

  Heart, Battle, Warfare

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “Ender's Game Boxed Set II: Ender's Game, Ender in Exile, Speak for the Dead”, p.308, Tor Science Fiction

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• The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time; our sense of that, not a disinterested love of science, and certainly not wisdom, is why we devote such a huge proportion of the ingenuity and income of our societies to finding faster ways of doing things - as if the final aim of mankind was to grow closer not to a perfect humanity, but to a perfect lightning-flash.

  John Fowles

  Time, Perfect, Humanity

  JOHN FOWLES (1969). “THE FRENCH LIEUTENTANT'S WOMAN”

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• Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.

  Douglas Coupland

  Emotion, Daily Life, Feels

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m going to carry you now,” he told her, “so we can move even faster. I’m not asking you, I’m telling you. Any response from you is unnecessary and unwelcome.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Moving, Asking, Unnecessary

  Suzanne Brockmann (2002). “Out of Control”, p.369, Ballantine Books

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• My parents raised me that you never ask people about their reproductive plans. “You don’t know their situation,” my mom would say. I considered it such an impolite question that for years I didn’t even ask myself. Thirty-five turned into forty faster than McDonald’s food turns into cold nonfood.

  Tina Fey

  Mom, Mcdonalds, Years

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• What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

  Isaac Asimov

  Six Months, Type, Ifs

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• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

  Marc Bekoff

  Animal, Law, Individual Choice

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

  B. F. Skinner

  Intelligent, Men, Numbers

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.81, Hackett Publishing

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• The faster it ran away from me. And I found myself reasoning that perhaps one more beer would unlock the doors of perception.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Beer, Doors, Perception

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.144, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• What are you?” I said irritably. “In the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I’m stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don’t apologize to the gazelle when I take it down.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Stronger, Would Be, Gazelles

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.588, Dell

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• Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

  Ally Carter

  Believe, Heart, Long

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I’m faster than the rest of you, if .. Because I’m a vampire,” Michael said, and it was some kind of breakthrough for him to say that. “If you get in trouble, I’ll be there.” “Nice,” Shane said. “I’m warming up to this bloodsucking thing, Mikey.” “No, you’re not.” “Okay, no, I’m not, but right now let’s pretend I am.

  Rachel Caine

  Nice, Vampire, Kind

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• Dreams age faster than dreamers.

  Stephen King

  Dream, Dreamer, Age

  Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

  John Elder Robison

  People, Social, Accepting

  John Elder Robison (2011). “Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian with Practical Advice for Aspergians, Misfits, Families & Teachers”, p.128, Broadway Books

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• You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

  Jim Butcher

  Running, Guy, Next

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• General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Crush, Powerful, Men

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.289, Taylor & Francis

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• Some men are born to good luck: all they do or try to do comes right—all that falls to them is so much gain—all their geese are swans—all their cards are trumps—toss them which way you will, they will always, like poor puss, alight upon their legs, and only move on so much the faster. The world may very likely not always think of them as they think of themselves, but what care they for the world? what can it know about the matter?

  Jacob Grimm

  Moving, Fall, Good Luck

  Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm “Annotated Grimms' Fairy Tales with English Grammar Exercises: by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.

  Charles Bukowski

  Bathroom

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• My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a test tube marked SOBER REALITY into another labeled SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Heart, Reality, Mad

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• But young hearts mend easily, and hearts that own half of England have something better to do than to beat faster for love.

  Philippa Gregory

  Heart, Half, England

  Philippa Gregory (2008). “The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am.” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back.” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them.” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Here I Am, Silence

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• Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the road an hour.

  Steven Wright

  Hours, Officers, Knows

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