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• I had to admit the man looked amazing in jeans. The ancient denim clung lightly to his hips and followed the long lines of some remarkable thigh muscles. And although I made a point of not checking out his rear view, my peripheral vision was having a very good day.” ~ Haven Travis on Hardy Cates

  Lisa Kleypas

  Good Day, Men, Views

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.71, St. Martin's Press

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• Instantly, the noise stopped. The whole room lay in perfect silence. The tire builders stood in long lines, touching each other, perfectly motionless, deafened by the silence.... For the first time in history, American mass-production workers had stopped a conveyor belt and halted the inexorable movement of factory machinery.

  Ruth McKenney

  Struggle, Perfect, Long

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• When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

  Arthur Helps

  Mistake, Humility, Fate

  Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”

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• I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

  Veronica Roth

  Long, Together, Lines

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• It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Dream, Giving Up, Circles

  Lorraine Hansberry (2011). “A Raisin in the Sun”, p.116, Vintage

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• Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

  Marianne Williamson

  Jesus, Powerful, Hero

  Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.11, Penguin

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• We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

  Miranda July

  Long, People, Lines

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable.

  Ilona Andrews

  Adorable, Long, Monsters

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.87, Penguin

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• It will be hard James but you come from sturdy peasant stock men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads and in the teeth of the most terrifying odds achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity You come from a long line of great poets some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said "The very time I thought I was lost My dungeon shook and my chains fell off." You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you James and Godspeed.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Men, Odds

  "A Letter to My Nephew" by James Baldwin, progressive.org. January 1, 1962.

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• I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

  Sharon Olds

  Children, Pain, Long

  Sharon Olds (2012). “The Dead and the Living”, p.55, Knopf

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Boys, Years, Long

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• She's descended from a long line her mother listened to.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Sarcastic, Mother, Long

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