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• I go where I'm invited. And all I can tell you is if we accepted every invitation we had, I'd be away every day of my life.

  John Shelby Spong

  Accepted, Invited, Ifs

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• Most of the 50 or so invitations you receive each week come from people inviting the President's Chief of Staff, not you. If you doubt that, ask your predecessor how many he received last week.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  People, Doubt, President

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• It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s.

  Robert Towne

  Past, California, Capes

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• For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more wealth as a man would about admitting that he had accepted an invitation just for the sake of the food. This is one of humanity's most profound imbecilities, as perhaps the only justification for asking one's fellowmen to endure the horrors of war would be the knowledge that if they did not fight they would starve.

  Rebecca West

  War, Fighting, Men

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Ignorance, Sleep, World

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “The Church of Dead Girls: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin

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• In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Artist, Style, Weakness

  Kenneth Tynan (1961). “Curtains: Selections from the Drama Criticism and Related Writings”

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• although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

  E. Lockhart

  Short Life, Party, Home

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• It is usual for a woman, even though she may ardently desire to give herself to a man, to feign reluctance, to simulate alarm or indignation. She must be brought to consent by urgent pleading, by lies, adjurations, and promises. I know that only professional prostitutes are accustomed to answer such an invitation with a perfectly frank assent -- prostitutes, or simple-minded, immature girls.

  Stefan Zweig

  Girl, Women, Lying

  Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.69, Pushkin Press

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• A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Sight, First Impression, Matter

  "Paladin of Souls". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 2003.

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• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to "Hamlet" on the grounds that I knew who won.

  Quentin Crisp

  Years, Age, Rooms

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 12, 1968.

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• When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Technology, Hands, Two

  "From my Life" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 29, 1993.

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• The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wise, Lying, Communication

  "Tàpies, Werke auf Papier 1943 - 2003" by Antoni Tapies, Kunsthalle Emden, edited by Achim Sommer, Altana, (p. 30), 2004.

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• All invitations must proceed from heaven perhaps; perhaps it is futile for men to initiate their own unity, they do but widen the gulfs between them by the attempt.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Heaven, Unity

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• When I'm by myself, I'm not threatening at all. I get many more invitations than I would if I were traveling with anyone else, especially with a man. But I'm rarely alone. I sit on a park bench and I'm not alone because I pick a park bench where somebody interesting is sitting.

  Rita Gelman

  Men, Interesting, Sitting

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• Children of the Nephilim," Magnus said. "Well, well. I don't recall inviting you." Isabelle took out her invitation and waved it like a white flag. "I have an invitation. These"--she indicated the rest of the group with a grand wave of her arm--"are my friends." Magnus plucked the invitation out of her hand and looked at it with fastidious distaste. "I must have been drunk," he said. He threw the door open. "Come in. And try not to murder any of my guests." Jace looked at him, "Even if one of them spills something on my new shoes?" "Even then." - 219

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Hands, Shoes

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• The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Operations, Duty

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• The truth is far beyond what we can see. Therefore my art is an invitation to comprehend this fact.

  Ala Bashir

  Art, Truth, Facts

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• Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.

  Robert Grudin

  Powerful, Moving, Winning

  Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I try to stir up the emotion, and feel myself harassed and distressed at the impotency of my own meditations. But why linger without the threshold in the face of a warm and urgent invitation? "Come unto me." Do not think it is your office to heal one part of the disease, and Christ's to heal the remainder.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Thinking, Office, Meditation

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• A story is an invitation, and a challenge, and a choice.

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

  Choices, Challenges, Stories

  Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.132, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.

  Steve Forbes

  Defense, World, Pearls

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Actually, I came because I have a last-minute invitation. My friend Erika Gill is having a big party tomorrow night, one of those all-out birthday bashes that girls like. Want to go?" ---------------------------------------- "No. Sorry." "Since it's a catered thing, at a restaurant, I'll pick you up at- what did you say?" "I'm sorry. I can't do it." ---------------------------------------- "You're busy?" "I just can't do it," I said.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Girl, Sorry, Party

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• She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Slaughterhouse Five, Dull

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights.

  Charles Simic

  Sight, Voyages

  Charles Simic (2013). “The Monster Loves His Labyrinth”, p.74, Copper Canyon Press

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• I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Teeth, Needs, Brushes

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “Silence”, p.433, Simon and Schuster

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