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• You know–my flower, I am responsible for her. She doesn’t even have four thorns to protect herself from harm.’ (Zarek) Why do you love that book so? (Astrid) Because I want to hear the bells when I look up at the sky. I want to laugh, but I don’t know how. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Book, Sky

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• you don't need free will to determine that twice two is four. that's not what i call free will

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Needs, Free Will

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• I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.

  Lewis Carroll

  Believe, Cat, Animal

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• I walked in on my folks doing it doggy style less than four hours ago." "Waitress!" Jonas screamed, clicking his fingers madly. "Bring two!" then, more quietly,"You want a neck massage? A bedtime story? A bullet in the ear?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Two, Style, Massage

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• Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

  J. K. Rowling

  Perfectly Normal, Numbers, Proud

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.9, Pottermore

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• The only way woman can truly be completely satisfied is to get herself four different men--an old one, an ugly one, a Mandingo, and a gay guy.

  Steve Harvey

  Gay, Men, Guy

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• It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

  Naomi Novik

  Luck, Three, Has Beens

  Twitter post from Dec 10, 2014

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• Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Letters, Good Things, Starting

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• By the way, I'm not just one man with a chalkboard. I'm one man with four chalkboards.

  Glenn Beck

  Men, Way, Chalkboards

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• This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mind, Twenties, Would Be

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.49, Penguin Group

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• They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear water. For twenty-four years they were guilty, but this first year was the only one which seemed like happiness. Looking back on it, when they were old, they did not remember that in this year it had ever rained or frozen. The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them.

  T. H. White

  Years, Rivers, Rose

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• My demeanor isn't that of a woman enraged. To see me slumped, glassy-eyed, holding a sandwich someone has cut for me into four "manageable" pieces, a person might tell you I look much more like a woman subdued.

  Koren Zailckas

  Cutting, Looks, Sandwiches

  Koren Zailckas (2010). “Fury: True Tales of a Good Girl Gone Ballistic”, p.41, Penguin

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• you got two feet, Sethe, not four." he said, and right then a forest sprang up between them; tactless and quiet.

  Toni Morrison

  Two, Feet, Forests

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• The Four Noble Truths are pragmatic rather than dogmatic. They suggest a course of action to be followed rather than a set of dogmas to be believed. The four truths are prescriptions for behavior rather than descriptions of reality. The Buddha compares himself to a doctor who offers a course of therapeutic treatment to heal one’s ills. To embark on such a therapy is not designed to bring one any closer to ‘the Truth’ but to enable one’s life to flourish here and now, hopefully leaving a legacy that will continue to have beneficial repercussions after one’s death. (154)

  Stephen Batchelor

  Buddhism, Reality, Doctors

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• One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

  Victor Borge

  Father, Home, Fire

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• Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this rarity, this dazzling creation with blue-green, white-tipped icing waves swimming with fish and sailboats, seals and sea flowers. But I push my way through the crowd to confirm what I knew at first sight. As surely as the embroidery stitches in Annie's gown were done by Cinna's hand, the frosted flowers on the cake were done by Peeta's.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Swimming, Hands

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.227, Scholastic Inc.

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• And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• I think it's great that they can come in and suck us dry. Remind me to leave my window unlatched tonight. Day. Night. Whatever. Cone steal my soul, you worthless bastards. I'm open like a twenty-four-hour blood diner donor." (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Night, Thinking, Blood

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• Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.

  Alyson Noel

  Girl, Dream, Years

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• It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

  Robin McKinley

  Book, Reading, Needs

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• I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Hurt, Believe, Civilization

  E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

  David Nicholls

  Twenties, Littles, Lost

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.

  Megan McCafferty

  Saying Goodbye, Self, Years

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.349, Broadway Books

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• I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

  Chetan Bhagat

  Disappointment, Frustration, Needs

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• At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, Age, Poet

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.32, Penguin

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