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• Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Men, Illusion

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

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• The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free.

  Ron Paul

  Mistake, Rights, Long

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• That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they never could endure the notion of their children laying their heads upon their pillows; in short, that there never more could be, for them or theirs, any laying of heads upon pillows at all, unless the prisoner's head was taken off.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Taken, Ideas

  "All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal".

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• the intensity, glory, and absolute assuredness if my mind's flight made it very difficult for me to believe once i was better, that the illness was one i should willingly give up....moods are such an essential part of the substance of life, of one's notion of oneself, that even psychotic extremes in mood and behavior somehow can be seen as temporary, even understandable reactions to what life has dealt....even though the depressions that inevitably followed nearly cost me my life.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Depression, Giving Up, Believe

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• My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Care

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.222, Delphi Classics

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• He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Men, Personality, Waiting

  Flannery O'Connor (1983). “Three by Flannery O'Connor: Wise blood, The violent bear it away, Everything that rises must converge”, Signet Classics

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• Basically, Sherri's idea had to do with bringing Fat's mind down from the cosmic and the abstract to the particular. She had hatched out the practical notion that nothing is more real than a large World War Two Soviet tank.

  Philip K. Dick

  Real, War, Ideas

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “VALIS”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Mother, Parenting, Looks

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Needs, Kind, Born

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.79, Library of America

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• I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Suffering, Fancy, Gentle

  "Preludes" l. 48 (1917)

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• This is the very boring part of eating disorders, the aftermath. When you eat and hate that you eat. And yet of course you must eat. You don’t really entertain the notion of going back. You, with some startling new level of clarity, realize that going back would be far worse than simply being as you are. This is obvious to anyone without an eating disorder. This is not always obvious to you.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Hate, Eating Disorder, Would Be

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• That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fashion, Science, Oddities

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.226, University of Illinois Press

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• Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn't mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don't ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn't depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.

  William P. Young

  Mean, Color, Grace

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• I know that as a very young child, I was afraid of death. Many children become aware of the notion of death early and it can be a very troubling thing. We're all in this continuum: I'm this age now, and if I live long enough I'll be that age. I was 20 once, I was 10, I was 4. People who are 20 now will be 50 one day. They don't know that! They know it in the abstract, but they don't know it. I'd like them to know it, because I think it gives you compassion.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Children, Thinking, Compassion

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• Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Crazy

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.175, Vintage

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• I despised their antics because I took life seriously and had a much more lofty and tender notion of romance. But I would have liked to get their attention just the same.

  Alice Munro

  Romance, Attention, Antics

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

  Bruce Springsteen

  Alive, Faces, Sin

  Song: Badlands, 1978

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• We never consider that the things dogs know about us are things of which we have not the faintest notion.

  Jose Saramago

  Dog, Knows

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• There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

  John Dewey

  Educational, Facts, Reason Why

  John Dewey (1998). “Experience and Education, 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.46, Kappa Delta Pi

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• The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

  Tom Robbins

  Party, Anxiety, Agitation

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.49, Bantam

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• I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

  Donald Miller

  Fear, Father, Boys

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Apes, Facts

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• So I stood up and did a handstand on my Guru's roof, to celebrate the notion of liberation. I felt the dusty tiles under my hands. I felt my own strength and balance. I felt the easy night breeze on the palms of my bare feet. This kind of thing -- a spontaneous handstand--isn't something a disembodied cool blue soul can do, but a human being can do it. We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Blue, Hands

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Because subjects like literature and art history have no obvious material pay-off, they tend to attract those who look askance at capitalist notions of utility. The idea of doing something purely for the delight of it has always rattled the grey-bearded guardians of the state. Sheer pointlessness has always been a deeply subversive affair.

  Terry Eagleton

  Art, Ideas, Looks

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• For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.

  James Branch Cabell

  War, Effort, Ruins

  James Branch Cabell (2017). “Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC

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