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• I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Thinking

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• I've been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

  Chris Hardwick

  Jobs, Too Much

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• My attention span is very limited, and I watch just one or two movies a year.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Years, Two, Watches

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• And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Dark, Night

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• Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.

  P. C. Cast

  Mean, Gay, Thinking

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.57, Macmillan

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• We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.

  Nick Hornby

  Lying, Moving, Mean

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• To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

  Salman Rushdie

  Life, Children, World

  "Midnight's Children". Book by Salman Rushdie, 1981.

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• I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nice, Would Be, Mouths

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.

  Douglas Coupland

  Crazy, Dark, Pigs

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• I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

  Nicholas Evans

  Long, Forever, Trying

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• The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Unique

  "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World". Book by Wade Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2009.

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• It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Said, Plans

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.173, Penguin

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• This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things and you imagine terrible things, and you take no responsibility for the choice. You say you have inside you both the power of good and the power of evil, the angel and the devil, but in truth you have just one thing inside you - the ability to imagine.

  Michael Crichton

  Responsibility, Angel, Evil

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Sphere”, p.335, Vintage

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• Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

  J. K. Rowling

  Luck, Masters

  "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 26, 1997.

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• God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.

  Francis Bacon

  Book, Two, Environmental

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• So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what.

  Margaret Atwood

  Fun, Plot, Favors

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Good Bones and Simple Murders”, p.56, Nan A. Talese

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• So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.

  Sarah Dessen

  Memories, Together, Pieces

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “Just Listen: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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• If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, House

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• If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Crazy, Adventure, Mean

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• What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real world is a much darker and deeper place than this, and much of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Thinking, World

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from May 10, 2015

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• Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived.

  J. K. Rowling

  Doors, Hammocks, Requirements

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• Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Giving, Generations, World

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• No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Smart, Thinking, Daddy

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

  Robert Fulghum

  Sleep, Thinking, Years

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• If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

  Stephen King

  Goes On, Way, Taught

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.495, Simon and Schuster

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