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• Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lying, Liars, Writing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.102, Macmillan

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• That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.

  Deborah Harkness

  Stars, Home, Sunset

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.63, Penguin

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• You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

  Max Lucado

  Baby, Self, Boss

  Max Lucado (2011). “Live Loved: Experiencing God's Presence in Everyday Life”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now I have Aisling...She's better than reality TV, Internet porn sites, and the trashloids all put together.' - Jim

  Katie MacAlister

  Reality, Two, Together

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• Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

  Deb Caletti

  Love Life, Rose, Humiliation

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Mba, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.

  Robert Plant

  Two, Dollars, Owing

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.

  Nat Hentoff

  Book, Writing, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

  Linus Torvalds

  Cat, Office, Want

  Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.

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• Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

  Paul Theroux

  Years, Different, Used

  "Fiction in the Age of E-Books". "The Atlantic" Interview, www.theatlantic.com. 2010.

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• Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a while, and considering the bad news and what it might mean, and making the occasional tough choice, and soberly taking stock of what your real interests are.

  Matt Taibbi

  Real, Mean, Choices

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• Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

  Dennis Prager

  Writing, Speak, Inappropriate

  "A Letter to Young Voters" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Husband, Home

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

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• After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Blue, White, House

  Dee Dee Myers (2009). “Why Women Should Rule the World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.The Sunday World was a dry-stall interlude in my wanderings.

  A. J. Liebling

  Christmas, Fall, Mean

  A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.14, Macmillan

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• Operating-room errors hold a special terror for patients, if only because they seem like the most avoidable kind of complications. The occasional horror stories of patients who have the wrong leg removed or the wrong knee replaced generate the most headlines, as do tales of patients whose identities are mixed up entirely.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Horror Stories, Errors, Identity

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• Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Years, People, Alcohol

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• In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Nachos, Burgers, Burritos

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• The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

  Brian Eno

  Firsts, Intrusion, Pops

  "Pushing Back the Limits of Speech and Music". Interview with Ben Sisario, www.nytimes.com. July 4, 2011.

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• I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Tennis, Balls

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• The things that make me happiest in the whole world are going on the occasional picnic, either with my children or with my partner. Big family gatherings, and being able to go to the grocery store - if I can get those things in, I’m doing good.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Big Families, Gathering

  "Isn’t She Deneuvely?". Interview with Krista Smith, www.vanityfair.com. December 2008.

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• My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

  Maira Kalman

  Notebook, Dream, Travel

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• I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

  David Sedaris

  Inanimate Objects, Fool, Ridiculous

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• As a healthy person, my breakfasts are very bland and boring. Think kind of a white pasty gruel. Or there can be an occasional banana over the top.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, White, Healthy

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Taken, Self

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