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• This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Fun, Sibling

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• In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Real, Men

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• A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Jobs, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.

  Bill Bryson

  Home, Thinking, Average

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• Don't turn around. 'Cuz you will get punched in the face. Don't make this worse. You've already gone and got me mad. It's too bad, I'm not sad It's casting over. Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.

  Avril Lavigne

  Mad, Gone, Cuz

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• Everybody is an atheist in saying that there is a god - from Ra to Shiva - in which he does not believe. All that the serious and objective atheist does is to take the next step and to say that there is just one more god to disbelieve in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, Believe, Religion

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• America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamourous reasonable voice.

  George Saunders

  Nuts, Voice, America

  George Saunders (2006). “In Persuasion Nation”, p.29, Penguin

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• We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called Love. That love, however, shouldn't be concentrated in just one person, it should be scattered throughout the world, waiting to be discovered. Wake up that love. What is gone cannot return. What is about to arrive needs to be recognized.

  Paulo Coelho

  Waiting, Needs, Purpose

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• The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Keys, Doors, House

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?”

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• What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Book, Circles, Two

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.120, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It’d be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things. ---Rhiow

  Diane Duane

  World, Kind, Poor

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• Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

  Tennessee Williams

  People, Giving, Advice

  Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty.

  Nhat Hanh

  Television, Sovereignty, Humans

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.7, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story

  Ted Dekker

  War, Games, Boards

  Ted Dekker (2009). “Bone Man's Daughters”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  People, Car, Phrases

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.312, Pan Macmillan

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• What do you think, Ronnie? Do you think we could stop after just one kiss?

  Suzanne Brockmann

  Kissing, Thinking

  Suzanne Brockmann (2016). “Prince Joe”, p.58, HQN Books

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• Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  Cameron Dokey

  Life, Long, Stories

  Cameron Dokey (2012). “Once: Before Midnight; Golden; Wild Orchid”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagine the earth’s population of six billion people reduced to just one hundred representatives. Statistically, that makes 30 white, 70 non-white. It means 6 people own 59% of the wealth and they all live in North America. 80 are in substandard housing. One has an education. One owns a computer. Don’t blame me if it all sounds crazy.

  Grant Morrison

  Crazy, Mean, White

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• If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe.

  Charlie Huston

  Real, Believe, Dark

  Charlie Huston (2009). “My Dead Body: A Novel”, p.45, Del Rey

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• I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour.

  Ray Bradbury

  Flower, Thinking, Sun

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.

  Sarah Vowell

  Spring, Reading, Writing

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Sep 05, 2015

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• Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." 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

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Purpose, Difficult, Poetry Is

  Czeslaw Milosz (2017). “Selected and Last Poems 1931-2004”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• Why limit yourself to just one best friend?

  Lisi Harrison

  Limits

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• Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children. But just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us, that maybe the world has made us forget.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Thinking, World

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.14, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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