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• I wipe my face with my sleeve, laughing so hard my stomach hurts. If my entire life is like this, loud laughter and bold action and the kind of exhaustion you feel after a hard but satisfying day, I will be content.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Laughter, Laughing So Hard

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.77, Harper Collins

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• There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Past, Opportunity, Years

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.358, Princeton University Press

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• I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—

  Ned Vizzini

  Girl, I Like You, Smart

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• It's not just a miracle; it's a miracle with chocolate. Best kind.

  Rachel Caine

  Miracle, Chocolate

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.2082, Penguin

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• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

  Luke Davies

  Wind, People, Joy

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• That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

  Jennifer Estep

  Kinky, Lips, Bitter

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Venom: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

  Isaac Marion

  Beautiful, Thinking, Our World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Grumbling, Way

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Tales from the Perilous Realm”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friendship, Roland realized, was its very own kind of love.

  Lauren Kate

  Kinds Of Love

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Fallen in Love”, p.110, Random House

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• People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Hatred

  "Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1956.

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• What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dining, Persons

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reading, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Taken, Thinking, Men

  "About Love and Other Stories". Book by Anton Chekhov (p. 4), June 10, 2004.

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• I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

  Rachel Cohn

  Worry, Sentences, I Can

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening to find what tone it called forth in the person I was talking to. It was how I tested people. If there was no response, this was not the kind of person I liked. Vienna wasn't just a city, it was a tone that either one carries forever in one's soul or one does not. It was the most beautiful thing in my life. I was poor, but I was not alone, because I had a friend.

  Sándor Márai

  Beautiful, Talking, Cities

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• One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

  Tony Kushner

  Optimism, Looks, Complicated

  Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press

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• Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.

  Jim Butcher

  Snacks, Evil, Chocolate

  Jim Butcher (2004). “Blood Rites: Book six of The Dresden Files”, p.49, Penguin

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• Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

  Osamu Dazai

  Struggle, Fighting, People

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Father, Black And White

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• Take some very deep breaths," Miranda said. "Relax. Concentrate. Then envision a frosty six-pack and wiggle your pinky." A frosty six-pack. Kylie inhaled. He held out her pinky, and right then Della chimed in. "We are talking a six=pack of soda, not a cold guy with good-looking abs, right?" There was a strange kind of sizzle in the air. And suddenly appearing in front of the refrigerator was a shirtless, shivering guy with great abs. His blue eyes studied the three of them in complete bafflement. "What the...!" he muttered. Kylie gasped. Miranda giggled. Della snorted with laughter.

  C.C. Hunter

  Laughter, Eye, Air

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• There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

  James Robertson

  Patience, Long, People

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• I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

  Orson Welles

  Joy, Happy Person, Persons

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• A pair of dolphins swept by us in the water, flicking their heads out to get a look at us as they went. One of them made a chittering sound that wasn't very melodic. The other twitched its tail and splashed a little water our way, all in good fun. They weren't the attractive Flipper kind of dolphins. They were regular dolphins that aren't as pretty and don't get cast on television. Maybe they just refused to sell out and see a plastic surgeon. I held up a fist to them. Represent.

  Jim Butcher

  Fun, Water, Pairs

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.2227, Penguin

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• Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.

  Renata Adler

  Cards, Purpose, Explanation

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.24, New York Review of Books

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• Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Dark, Thinking, Needs

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