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• Who else is going?" I asked. He shrugged. "Just you and me." My mood promptly shot up past 'cheerful' and went straight to 'estatic.' Me and Dimitri. Alone. In a car. This might very well be worth a surprise test. "How far is it?" Silently, I begged for it to be a really long drive. Like, one that would take a week. And would involve us staying overnight in luxury hotels. Maybe we'd get stranded in a snowbank, and only body heat would keep us alive. "Five hours" "Oh." A bit less than I'd hoped for. Still, five hours was better than nothing. It didn't rule out the snowbank possibility, either.

  Richelle Mead

  Past, Car, Long

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• Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

  Graham Greene

  Night, Thinking, Democracy

  Graham Greene (1992). “The Quiet American”

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• As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

  Jeannette Walls

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

  Patricia McCormick

  Cost, May

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• But was it wrong to put yourself first? That’s called survival, right? If you’re running for your life, you don’t get the luxury of being nice. They were going to learn that. It’s fine to wave the pompoms for teamwork—all for one and one for all—but when push came to shove, these guys wouldn’t be risking their lives for Chloe, maybe not even for each other. I was sure of it. Once things got worse, it would be every kid for himself. It always is.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Teamwork, Running, Nice

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• In a brutal country like ours, where human life is 'cheap', it's stupid to destroy yourself for the sake of your beliefs. Beliefs? High ideas? Only people in rich countries can enjoy such luxuries.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Stupid, Rich Countries

  FaceBook post by Orhan Pamuk from Dec 18, 2016

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• You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can abide it without anger.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• Oh, no way," Leo said. "We've been sitting in a cave and you get the luxury tent? Somebody give me hypothermia. I want hot chocolate and a parka!

  Rick Riordan

  Giving, Chocolate, Hot

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• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

  Audre Lorde

  Silence, Waiting, Finals

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.44, Crossing Press

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• When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Growing Up, Teenager, Baths

  Sarah Addison Allen (2012). “The Peach Keeper”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Responsibility, Sacrifice, Emotional

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.280, e-artnow

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• Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Style, Dresses

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• To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

  E. M. Forster

  People, Poor, Wealthy

  'Howards End' (1910) ch. 5

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• …determined to enjoy her luxury of grief uncomforted.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Grief, Determined, Enjoy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.

  Tina Fey

  Animal, Vacation, Play

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• Suicide was a mortal luxury not afforded to angels.

  Lauren Kate

  Suicide, Angel, Mortals

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.800, Delacorte Press

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• Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

  Alan Moore

  Order, Long, Depth

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• You can't afford the luxury of a negative thought

  Peter McWilliams

  Negative, Enemy Within, Negative Thoughts

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Love 101: To Love Oneself Is the Beginning of a Lifelong Romance”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• But, you see, that's the luxury of being a lout - you get to be selective about when you care and when you don't. The rest of us get stuck when your care goes shallow.

  Rachel Cohn

  Care, Shallow, Stuck

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.158, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Pride, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.37, Penguin

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• ...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our energy is used for the learning of how to achieve these aims, and almost none to learn the art of loving. Could it be that only those things are considered worthy of being learned with which one can earn money or prestige, and that love, which "only" profits the soul, but is profitless in the modern sense, is a luxury we have no right to spend energy on?

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Soul, Important

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• It had been a royal time of luxury to him, with all its stings and contumelies, compared to the poverty that crept round and clipped the anticipation of the future down to sordid fact, and life without an atmosphere of either hope or fear.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Atmosphere, Poverty, Royal

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• "Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

  Laini Taylor

  Love Is, Air, Romance

  "Daughter of Smoke and Bone". Book by Laini Taylor, September 27, 2011.

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• The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Blowing It, Privilege

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