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• …made me promise to cut down on the drinking and swearing, which I have. Unfortunately, this has left me dim-witted and nearly speechless.

  Nelson DeMille

  Drinking, Cutting, Promise

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• you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

  C. S. Lewis

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Perelandra”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnut, just to show it who was boss. Then he nudged it with his nose. Then he licked it, until finally he snagged it into his mouth and chomped it with great pleasure, dropping crumbs all over the carpet.

  Ilona Andrews

  Yellow, Office, Boss

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.89, Penguin

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• Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

  David Eddings

  Hero, Facts, Nervous

  David Eddings (1991). “The Seeress of Kell”, Del Rey

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• ...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.

  David Eddings

  Knives, Attention, Thumbs

  David Eddings (2010). “Seeress Of Kell: (Malloreon 5)”, p.166, Random House

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• Robert was never the same after he put on that crown. Some men are like swords, made for fighting. Hang them up and they go to rust.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fighting, Men, Crowns

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.786, Bantam

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• If you have heard a Jewish cantor sing, if he has touched you and made your own sorrow seem trivial when compared with his, you will know my feeling when I follow the curves of her profile, like mobile rivers, to their common delta.

  Jean Toomer

  Rivers, Curves, Feelings

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• All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hangover, Heart, Sleep

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• In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.

  Damon Galgut

  Thinking, People, Matter

  Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I told her about the man, not my daddy, she said, He was only making you into a real girl. I didn’t understand. But I made myself believe her. I was a real girl now. But what was I before?

  Ellen Hopkins

  Girl, Real, Believe

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• I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for love? How could I know you fit my body like a glove? I like you. How unlikely. I like you. How slow all of a sudden. How sweet. You cannot know. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. I have time. Please, devour me. Deform me to the point of ugliness. Why not you? Why not you in this city and in this night, so like other cities and other nights you can hardly tell the difference? I beg of you.

  Marguerite Duras

  Sweet, I Like You, Night

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• ...and suddenly it occurred to him that the birds, whose twitters and repeated songs sounded so pretty and affirming of nature and the coming day, might actually, in a code known only to other birds, be the birds each saying 'Get away' or 'This branch is mine!' or 'This tree is mine! I'll kill you! Kill, kill!' Or any other manner of dark, brutal, or self-protective stuff—they might be listening to war cries. The thought came from nowhere and made his spirits dip for some reason.

  David Foster Wallace

  Song, War, Dark

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• There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

  Oscar Wilde

  Too Late, Resolution, Fatality

  Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (2011). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition”, p.269, Harvard University Press

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• But the name Magnus Bane made him think of a towering sort of figure, with huge shoulders and formal purple warlock’s robes, calling down fire and lightning. Not Magnus himself, who was more of a cross between a panther and a demented elf.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, Names, Purple

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• Jesus didn't really die-someone gave him a long drug that made him look like dead, and he revived in the tomb. Answer: Roman soldiers knew how to kill people, and no disciple would have been fooled by a half-drugged, beat-up Jesus into thinking he'd defeated death and inaugurated the kingdom.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Thinking, Roman Soldiers

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• I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Light, Jeans

  Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff (2013). “The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories”, p.227, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

  C. S. Forester

  Thank God, Birth, Miserable

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• His eyes burned violet - not with anger but with intense desire. The kind of look that made you love a person so much, you missed him even when he was standing right in front of you.

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Desire, Looks

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.416, Delacorte Press

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• In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

  James Joyce

  Passing Away, Flesh, Spirit

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

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• There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Islands, Waiting

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.207, Scholastic Inc.

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• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Heart, Ideas

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.117, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

  Donald Trump

  Book, Chinese, Mind

  "Donald Trump: The Winston Churchill of the 21st Century?" by Kipp Friedman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2015.

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• Communism was a great system for making people equally poor - in fact, there was no better system in the world for that than communism. Capitalism made people unequally rich.

  Thomas Friedman

  People, Facts, World

  Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.52, Macmillan

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• And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Soul, Understanding

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.165, Courier Dover Publications

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