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• Last night we told you that none of the angels remember where we landed when we fell," Daniel said. "Yeah, about that... How's it possible?" Shelby said. "You'd think that kind of thing would leave an impression on the old memorizer." Cam's face reddened. "You try falling for nine days through multiple dimensions and trillions of miles, landing on your face, breaking your wings, rolling around concussed for who knows how long, wandering the desert for decades looking for any clue as to who or what or where you are - then talk to me about the old memorizer.

  Lauren Kate

  Fall, Angel, Night

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• You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, People

  BBC Radio Talk: "Beyond Personality -- Mere Men", Broadcast 21 March 1944, BBC Home Service Radio

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• In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Kids, Writing, Mean

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• The afterlife looks different to every soul," he said, "depending on whatthey believe. For that guy, Egypt must've made a strong impression when he was young , maybe." "And if someone doesn't believe in any afterlife?" i asked. Walt gave me a sad look. "Then that's what they experience.

  Rick Riordan

  Strong, Believe, Egypt

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.835, Penguin UK

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• His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.

  Terry Pratchett

  Parent, Age, Hints

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• The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Desire, Arriving

  George Eliot (1875). “Silas Marner ; And, Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite so merry and smiling a girl as I had been led to believe at first. She seemed to be coiled in herself, as though with a secret she was jealously guarding. The deep-blue eyes moved too quickly about the room, never settling or resting on one thing for more than a moment; and over all her face, though so faint that they might not even have been there, those small downward lines of sorrow.

  Roald Dahl

  Girl, Believe, Eye

  Roald Dahl (1979). “Tales of the unexpected”

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• The impression of strength came from an extraordinary vitality that seemed to pulse in the very air around him

  Elizabeth George Speare

  Air, Pulse, Vitality

  Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Cheating, Thinking, Failing

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.

  Herman Melville

  Baby, Men, Sea

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.190, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Believe, Reassurance, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.38, Atlântico Press

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• Jack leaned over, “Ever get the impression that these women are way out of our league?” “I shot the last guy who said that to me.

  Julie James

  League, Guy, Way

  Julie James (2011). “A Lot Like Love”, p.182, Penguin

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• I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates.

  Patti Smith

  Memories, Glasses, Plates

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.3, A&C Black

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• Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.

  Rick Riordan

  Iguanas, Laughing, People

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• She was witchy, yes, and in charge of a cauldron roiling with ideas and stories, but she always gave the impression that the stories, the ones she wrote and wrote so very well and so wisely, had simply happened, and that all she had done was to hold the pen. (On Diana Wynne Jones)

  Neil Gaiman

  Ideas, Stories, Done

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• I'm gone, lost, floating away into nothingness like I am in my dream, but this time it's a good feeling - like soaring, like being totally free, and I can feel the impression of his fingers everywhere that they touch, and I think of stars streaking through the sky and leaving burning trails behind them, and in that moment - however long it lasts, seconds, minutes, days - while he's saying my name into my mouth and I'm breathing into him, I realize this, right here, is the first and only time I've ever been kissed in my life.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dream, Stars, Thinking

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• If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, First Impression, Doe

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Jan 14, 2013

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• People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

  Ann Brashares

  Believe, People, First Impression

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.46, Penguin

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• This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur.

  David Attenborough

  Men, Views, Years

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• My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, First Impression, Firsts

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

  Yann Martel

  Decision, Over You, Allies

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• we all have too many wheels, screws and valves to judge each other on first impressions or one or two pointers. I don't understand you, you don't understand me and we don't understand ourselves.

  Anton Chekhov

  Two, Judging, First Impression

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Ronald Hingley (1998). “Five Plays”, p.44, Oxford University Press, USA

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• What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Reading, Reflection

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Mr. Harinton was real. There were adults in the world who would actually make sacrifices for others - not just for their own families but for anyone who needed help. Nicholas had always had the impression that families looked after one another, and he had come to understand that, on rare ocassions, children would do the same... But this was different. What Mr. Harinton was doing certainly helped Nicolas - but it also simply felt right to Nicholas. It made him want to be exactly like Mr. Harinton himself.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Children, Real, Sacrifice

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• ...the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you. This is half the reason for the cure: It clean-sweeps; it makes the past, and all its pain, distant, like the barest impression on sparkling glass.

  Lauren Oliver

  Pain, Past, Glasses

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.128, Hachette UK

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