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• The talk of pale, burning-eyed students, anarchists and utopians all, over tea and cigarettes in a locked room long past midnight, is next morning translated, with the literalness of utter innocence, into the throwing of the bomb, the shouting of the proud slogan, the dragging away of the young dreamer-doer, still smiling, to the dungeon and the firing squad.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Past, Squad

  Christopher Isherwood, Don Bachardy, James P. White (1989). “Where Joy Resides: An Isherwood Reader”, Vintage

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• Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1906). “Faust, a Dramatic Mystery”

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• The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Crazy, Fire Of Love

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• No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Years, Forever, Matter

  "Memories of My Melancholy Whores". Book by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, www.newyorker.com. 2004.

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• All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it’s game over forever.

  Margaret Atwood

  Games, Tree, Forever

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.223, Anchor

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• Did Lovelace's forces find you? Did Jabor break in?" He spoke slowly through clenched teeth. "I went to get a newspaper" This is getting better and better! I shook my head regretfully. "You should leave such a dangerous assignment to people better qualified: next time ask an old granny, or a toddler-

  Jonathan Stroud

  People, Get Better, Teeth

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• Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Brave, Robots

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• The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

  William Faulkner

  Mean, Men, Trying

  William Faulkner (1937). “Soldiers' Pay”

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• A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Glasses, Hair

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• [A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you really want to write a book about homosexuals?" they asked me. "Won't people who read your work be influenced toward sin?" I notice that I don't hear from them much lately.

  Tracy Hickman

  Couple, Book, Writing

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• The search for one's first professional job is not unlike a magical love potion: when one wants to fall in love with the next thing one sees, one generally does.

  Sloane Crosley

  Falling In Love, Jobs, Doe

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.31, Portobello Books

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• I'll fix it up with Mum and Dad, then I'll call you. I know how to use a fellytone now - " "A telephone, Ron," said Hermione. "Honestly, you should take Muggle Studies next year.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dad, Years, Muggles

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• He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Expression, Cities, Next Day

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1216, Simon and Schuster

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• Ironically, he'd yet to leave a good impression. First he'd spilled soda on her, next she'd seen him almost involved in a riot, and then this morning she'd believed him to be either lazy or an idiot.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Morning, Lazy, Soda

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• She really started to cry, and the next thing I knew, I was kissing her all over - anywhere - her eyes, her nose, her forehead, her eyebrows, and all, her ears - her whole face except her mouth and all.

  J. D. Salinger

  Eye, Kissing, Noses

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• There is nothing on earth more beautiful to me than your smile...no sound sweeter than your laughter...no pleasure greater than holding you in my arms. I realized today that I could never live without you, stubborn little hellion that you are. In this life and the next, you’re my only hope of happiness. Tell me, Lillian, dearest love...how can you have reached so far inside my heart?

  Lisa Kleypas

  Beautiful, Soulmate, Laughter

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• Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down.

  Mitch Albom

  Running, Jobs, Thinking

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.136, Broadway Books

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• Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.

  Patrick Jones

  Heart, Years, Next Year

  Patrick Jones (2006). “Things Change”, p.101, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Song, Thinking

  "Saturday". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2005.

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• Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times.

  Marisha Pessl

  Teeth, Three, Juliet

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.194, Penguin

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• Liam really enjoyed a good movie. He found it restful to watch people's conversations without being expected to join in. But he always felt sort of lonesome if he didn't have someone next to him to nudge in the ribs at the good parts.

  Anne Tyler

  People, Good Movie, Watches

  Anne Tyler (2009). “Noah's Compass: A Novel”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to the adjoining county, city or state, but to your immediate surroundings. Forget Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and all the others. Do your part to the best of your ability, regardless of the consequences. Above all, do not wait for the next man to follow suit.

  Henry Miller

  Jesus, Men, Russia

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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• Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.

  Craig Thompson

  Dream, Reality, Giving

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• She really does like him, she likes lying next to him, she wants to be around him; when you get down to it, can you say that about many people?

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Lying, People, Doe

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• According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

  Abraham Verghese

  Broken, Tasks, Generations

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