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• A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,” answered Henry. “Correct,” said Stuart. “Those are the important things. You forgot one thing, though. Mary Bendix, what did Henry Rackmeyer forget?” “He forgot ice cream with chocolate sauce on it,” said Mary quickly.

  E. B. White

  Mother, Baby, Dark

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• My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.

  John Marsden

  Writing, Heart, Mean

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Enemy, Important, Useless

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.29, Bottom of the Hill

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• Marriage is very important. Marrying a girl is the most important thing a man can do. Never mind business or politics or sport or any of that, there's nothing so vital to the world as a man marrying a woman. That's where we get our children from, that's how the human race goes forward. And if it's too late for children, there's the companionship of a safe and trusted person.

  Frank Delaney

  Girl, Sports, Children

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.21, Random House

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• We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to us, our intimate friends, those who have been most devotedly ready to receive our confession.

  Walter Benjamin

  Important, Confession, Intimate

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland, Gary Smith (1999). “Gesammelte Schriften”, p.240, Harvard University Press

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• She's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Balance, Important, Together

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• I can't believe you've been here all day and didn't come visit. ", Tatiana said. "Aw, I figured you had more important things to do than see me, " Adrian told her. "Besides, I quit smoking, so now we won't be able to go sneak cigarettes out behind the throne room together. " "Adrian!" chastised Nathan, turning bright red. It occurred to me then that I could have based a drinking game around how many times he exclaimed his son's name disapprovingly.

  Richelle Mead

  Drinking, Believe, Son

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• Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

  Francine Prose

  Self, Class, Important

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• I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.

  Tove Jansson

  Beautiful, Summer, Twilight

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• The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Book

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 09, 2016

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• The most important thing was that time had passed, pouring thousands of soothing seconds across the island. People need time to deal with the now before it runs away and becomes the then.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Islands, People

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Nation”, p.150, Random House

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• The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Important, Would Be

  Haruki Murakami (1994). “The Elephant Vanishes”, Vintage

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• Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Crazy, Useless Stuff

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Apr 27, 2015

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• The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dog, Lonely, Moon

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• The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Flower, Important, Blooming

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• Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world. Yeah, I know there are more important things. But don't forget to remember me.

  Carrie Underwood

  Important, World, Remember

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• I like 'pencil-necked weasel'. It has 'pencil' in it. Pencils are good things. You can draw or write things with pencils. I think it's what you call someone when you're worried that using a long word like 'intellectual' may have too many syllables. It's not something that people who have serious, important things to say call other people.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  "Neil Gaiman hits back at US politician's theft accusation" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2011.

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• No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Important

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• I have a message for my fans. Whatever you want to do in this world, it is achievable. The most important thing that I've found, that perhaps you could use, is be passionate and enthusiastic in the direction that you choose in life, and you'll be a winner.

  Steve Irwin

  Life, Important, Use

  "Crikey What an Adventure". Documentary, 2007.

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• Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

  Veronica Roth

  Things In Life, Community, Important

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• The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Important, Too Much

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4424, Delphi Classics

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• The most important thing in business is a persona, Nico,' he was fond of saying. 'People want to know immediately what they're dealing with. And when they think about you, you've got to stand out in their minds--like one of those characters in a novel.

  Candace Bushnell

  Business, Character, Thinking

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• To live factionless Is not just to live in poverty and discomfort; it is to live divorced from society, separated from the most important thing in life: community. My mother once told me that we can’t survive alone,but even if we could, we wouldn’t want to. Without a faction, we have no purpose and no reason to live.

  Veronica Roth

  Mother, Things In Life, Community

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• Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it’s not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It’s not so important where it leads. that’s why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Character, Cat, Sheep

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• What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?

  Haruki Murakami

  What If, Important, Forgotten

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.14, Vintage

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