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• Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how to be so. Between their acts and their ceremonies lies the world and in this world the storms blow and the trees twist in the wind and all the animals that God has made go to and fro yet this world men do not see. They see the acts of their own hands or they see that which they name and call out to one another but the world between is invisible to them

  Cormac McCarthy

  Lying, Men, Animal

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.331, Pan Macmillan

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• there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• When ordinary human beings perform extraordinary acts of generosity, endurance or compassion, we are all made richer by their example. Like the rivers that flow out of the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush, the inspiration they generate washes down to the rest of us. It waters everyone's fields.

  Greg Mortenson

  Inspiration, Compassion, Rivers

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• I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cute, Eye, Hair

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• Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.

  J.R. Ward

  Gun, Destiny, Choices

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.200, Penguin

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• I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Sweet, Regret, Mean

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• I hated him. I hated them all. They made me hate myself even more than I already did.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Hate, Hate Myself, Hated

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• The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

  Ezra Pound

  Mean, Men, Results

  Ezra Pound (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were made of wood and of plastic; some of straw and cloth and papier-mâché. Some were as bright as parrots, others as pale as parchment. Some were so grotesque he was certain they'd been carved by crazy people; others so perfect they looked like the death masks of angels. There were masks of clowns and foxes, masks like skulls decorated with real teeth, and one with carved flames instead of hair.

  Clive Barker

  Crazy, Real, Angel

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• I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Hate, Heart, Sleep

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.154, Penguin

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• The terror, which would not end for another 28 years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain.

  Stephen King

  Rain, Years, Floating

  "It". Book by Stephen King, September 15, 1986.

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• But-Jace what are you doing?' 'Finishing my shower. And if you‘ve made me run through all the hot water, I‘ll be very annoyed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Running, Water, Annoyed

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?

  Harper Lee

  Night, Men, People

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Mirrors, Self

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

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• God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end." God's Garden

  Robert Frost

  Children, Flower, Home

  Robert Frost (1992). “Selected Poems”, Gramercy

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• To know other people thought he'd made a mistake vindicated me. I wasn't a bad girlfriend, he was simply going through a period of temporary insanity and he'd come to his senses soon.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Girlfriend, Mistake, Temporary Insanity

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

  Ann Brashares

  Voice, Effort, Perception

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.82, Delacorte Press

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• I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop." She was crying, but not because of his words. It was because of a certainty she refused to consider while she sat before him.

  Kristin Cashore

  Love You, Heart, Cry

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Decision, Making Love

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U.S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Believe, Marine

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.240, Haymarket Books

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• We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

  John Quincy Adams

  Understanding, Who We Are, Embrace

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• But if you do know what is taught by plants and weather, you are in on the gossip and can feel truly at home. The sum of a field's forces [become] what we call very loosely the 'spirit of the place.' To know the spirit of a place is to realize that you are a part of a part and that the whole is made or parts, each of which in a whole. You start with the part you are whole in.

  Gary Snyder

  Home, Weather, Gossip

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.41, Counterpoint Press

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• What good is a life lived as if it made no difference at all to the great life of the world? - Fool

  Robin Hobb

  Differences, World, Fool

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.297, Spectra

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• Looking back, I could not point to one special time and say, There! That's what is amazing. We can change completely and not recognize it. We think terrible events have made us into stone. But love slips in like a chisel - and suddenly it is an ax, breaking us into pieces from the inside.

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

  Thinking, Terrible Events, Special

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• Love makes you weak. This I know for sure. Mom loved Roger. Roger loved Mom.And look what happpened there. She died. She thought her love made her strong. She kept telling me-after she was diagnosed-she ket telling me, "I'm going to beat this Kyra. I'm going to come out of it. I love you and I love your father and that love is my strength. You're my strength.

  Barry Lyga

  Mom, Strong, Father

  Barry Lyga (2009). “Goth Girl Rising”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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