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• Okay, okay, backing off. Um, I suppose this would be a bad time to ask you to talk to Pete for me, you know, about the car?' His eyes widened. I could almost hear him thinking, Of all the nerve! 'You were driving,' he said. 'But he likes you so much better than me.' 'That is because I do not keep wrecking the rentals.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Eye, Thinking, Car

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• You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Judging Yourself, Mind

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.36, Vintage

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• There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

  Harlan Coben

  Crazy, Lines, Illness

  Harlan Coben (2008). “Hold Tight”, p.166, Penguin

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• "I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough."
  "Waiting for perfect love?"
  "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for."

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Perfect, Long

  "Norwegian Wood". Book by Haruki Murakami, 2011.

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• I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Pain, Believe

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• That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

  Alice Hoffman

  Childhood, Wish, Behinds

  Alice Hoffman (1999). “Here on Earth”, p.55, Penguin Group

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• It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Men, Mark, Educated

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• communication is such a two-edged sword for guys. On the one hand, they almost always mean what they say. Refreshing, I know. On the other hand, getting them to actually say it can be like coaxing a corpse to tap-dance. Not that it can't be done. But it's so freaking exhausting. Not to mention the cost in heavyweight fishing line and Savion Glover videos.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Communication, Mean, Hands

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• If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.

  James A. Baldwin

  Real, Writing, Effort

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• Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

  Kij Johnson

  Years, Waiting, Months

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• You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!

  T. S. Eliot

  Mean, Odds, Giving

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• You know what i can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, i mean endlessly, i've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

  David Nicholls

  Nice, Smart, Believe

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• You changed the subject." "From what?" "The empty-headed girls who think you're sexy." "You know." "Know what?" "That I only have eyes for you." Laila swooned inside. She tried to read his face but was met by a look that was indecipherable: the cheerful, cretinous grin at odds with the narrow, half desperate look in his eyes. A clever look, calculated to fall precisely at the midpoint between mockery and sincerity

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, Sexy, Clever

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.278, A&C Black

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• P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

  Joanne Fluke

  Secret, Lasts, Rooms

  Joanne Fluke, Laura Levine, Leslie Meier (2011). “Joanne Fluke Christmas Bundle: Sugar Cookie Murder, Candy Cane Murder, Plum Pudding Murder, & Gingerbread Cookie Murder”, p.163, Kensington Books

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Happiness, Real Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Baby, Lonely, Real

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• (from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,” Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  President, Diaries, Hay

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• Jane's stories are extremely sensible. Then Diana puts too many murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  People, Stories, Too Much

  "The Must-Read Novels for Christmas Time".

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• It would be nice if there were some one thing constant and unchanging in the universe. If there is such a thing, then it is a thing which would have to be stronger than love, and it is a thing which I do not know.

  Roger Zelazny

  Nice, Stronger, Would Be

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• Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Depression, Loneliness, Guy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.49, A&C Black

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• Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Want, States, Enjoy

  Daniel Defoe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Daniel Defoe (Illustrated)”, p.128, Delphi Classics

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• I know not what to call this, nor will I urge that it is a secret, overruling decree, that hurries us on to be the instruments of our own destruction, even though it be before us, and that we rush upon it with our eyes open.

  Daniel Defoe

  Eye, Secret, Destruction

  Daniel Defoe (1836). “The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner with an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe”, p.8

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• We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Hearing, Firsts

  "Let the Great World Spin". Book by Colum McCann, June 23, 2009.

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• Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

  Anna Sewell

  Motivational, Ignorance, Mean

  Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The war was about vanity, he said. It was about old men who couldn't look in the mirror anymore and so they sent the young out to die. Was was a get-together of the vain. They wanted it simple--hate your enemy, know nothing of him.

  Colum McCann

  Hate, War, Simple

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing

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