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• GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

  Dave Eggers

  Ocean, Wings, Ideas

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How We Are Hungry”, p.28, Vintage

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• The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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• The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Aging, Remember

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• Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.

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  Ram Dass

  Religion, Spirituality

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.11, Harmony

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• Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

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  Ram Dass

  Heart, Mind, Way

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.71, Sounds True

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• She seemed to know, to accept, to welcome her position, the citadel of the family, the strong place that could not be taken. And since old Tom and the children could not know hurt or fear unless she acknowledged hurt or fear, she had practiced denying them in herself. And since, when a joyful thing happened, they looked to see whether joy was on her, it was her habit to build laughter out of inadequate materials....She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Hurt, Laughter

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• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  William Styron

  Country, Grief, Mean

  William Styron (1993). “Set this House on Fire”, Vintage

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• Time was something that largely happened to other people; he viewed it in the same way that people on the shore viewed the sea. It was big and it was out there, and sometimes it was an invigorating thing to dip a toe into, but you couldn't live in it all the time. Besides, it always made his skin wrinkle.

  Terry Pratchett

  Wrinkles, Sea, People

  "Thief Of Time". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2001.

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• He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Men, Personality, Waiting

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

  Malcolm X

  Personality, Ingredients, Birth

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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• But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of people, must be acute sufferers for the good of many. The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible?

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Men, Two, People

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1409, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The villagers asked him when this had happened, exactly, and Thrashbarg said it had happened yesterday, when they weren't looking. 'Have faith,' Old Thrashbarg said, 'or burn!' They let him have first pick of the sandwiches. It seemed easiest.

  Douglas Adams

  Yesterday, One Day, Sandwiches

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• Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.

  Ani DiFranco

  Treats

  Song: Adam And Eve, Album: Dilate

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• Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dozen, Littles, Imagine

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• That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Anger, Sadness, Special

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Message In A Bottle”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

  Richard Brautigan

  Vocabulary, Childhood, Feelings

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look at them. There are your true philosophers. I think that Mack and the boys know everything that has ever happened in the world and possibly everything that will happen. I think they survive in this particular world better than other people. In a time when people tear themselves to pieces with ambition and nervousness and covetousness, they are relaxed. All of our so-called successful men are sick men, with bad stomachs, and bad souls, but Mack and the boys are healthy and curiously clean. They can do what they want. They can satisfy their appetites without calling them something else.

  John Steinbeck

  Ambition, Successful, Boys

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• All stories are true. But some of them never happened.

  James A. Owen

  Stories

  James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.585, Simon and Schuster

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• And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Depression, Sadness

  Douglas Coupland (2010). “LIFE AFTER GOD”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, War, Forever

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.19, Penguin Books India

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• You go to work the next day pretending nothing happened. Your co-workers ask if everything's okay and you tell them you're just tired. And you're trying to smile. And they're trying to smile.

  Richard Siken

  Tired, Next Day, Trying

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• We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

  Douglas Coupland

  Soul, Looks, Way

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

  Willa Cather

  Success, Sleep, Air

  "My Antonia". Book by Willa Cather, 1918.

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• Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

  Milan Kundera

  Life, Might, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

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• Wonka: But, Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he always wanted.
  Charlie: What happened?
  Wonka: He lived happily ever after.

  Roald Dahl

  Men, Buckets, Ever After

  "Fictional characters: Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket". "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory", 1971.

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