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• Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Memories, Past, Keys

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.31, Chosen Books

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• Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, "Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Nice, Fall

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.5, Hachette UK

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• Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Deeds, Accomplished, Has Beens

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1994). “Mirror Dance”, p.163, Baen Books

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• How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

  Alice Sebold

  Games, Heaven, Weapons

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• This innocence Is brilliant I hope that it will stay This moment Is perfect Please don't go away I need you now And I'll hold on to it Don't you let it pass you by

  Avril Lavigne

  Going Away, Needs, Innocence

  Song: Innocence, Album: The Best Damn Thing, 2007

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Play, Actors, World

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.

  Alice Hoffman

  Grandmother, Cold, My Grandmother

  Alice Hoffman (2007). “Incantation”

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• An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Art, Confused

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.

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• Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Cheese, Okay

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Wintersmith: (Discworld Novel 35)”, p.315, Random House

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• From a distance, it makes perfect sense that the people and the things you think will save you are the very ones that have the power to disappoint you most bitterly, but up close it can hit you as a bewildering surprise.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life, Distance, Thinking

  Tom Perrotta (2006). “Joe College: A Novel”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Motivational, Confidence, Running

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Jan 03, 2017

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• I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Block, Dark

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.99, Macmillan

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• When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Teacher, School

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• You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that we had. Everyone was jealous of us at Cambridge, everyone. We were perfect together." We weren't perfect!" He looks at her incredulously. "And I didn't panic---" You did! You couldn't cope with the commitment! It frightened you!" It did not frighten me!" Luke shouts, exasperated. "It made me realize you weren't the person I wanted to have children with. Or spend the rest of my life with. Ever. And that's why I ended it!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Children, Jealous, Commitment

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• Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Imagine, Choke, Unreal

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones; they are what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Rose, Today

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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• If you're like us -mothers with an attitude problem- you may be getting increasingly irritable about this chasm between the ridiculous, honey-hued ideals of perfect motherhood in the mass media and the reality of mothers' everyday lives.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Mother, Attitude, Reality

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• And what is true education? It is awakening a love for truth; giving a just sense of duty; opening the eyes of the soul to the great purpose and end of life. It is not so much giving words, as thoughts; or mere maxims, as living principles. It is not teaching to be honest, because 'honesty is the best policy'; but because it is right. It is teaching the individual to love the good, for the sake of the good; to be virtuous in action because one is so in heart; to love and serve God supremely, not from fear, but from delight in his perfect character.

  David O. McKay

  Honesty, Teaching, Heart

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• On the day I swore to uphold the Hippocratic oath, the small hairs on the back of my neck stood up as I waited for lightning to strike. Who was I, vowing calmly among all these necktied young men to steal life out of nature's jaws, every old time we got half a chance and a paycheck?... I could not accept the contract: that every child born human upon this earth comes with a guarantee of perfect health and old age clutched in its small fist.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Children, Men, Hair

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.436, Faber & Faber

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• Her sculptured face was as perfect as a painting.

  Christopher Paolini

  Faces, Painting

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• i made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.

  Shel Silverstein

  Sleep, Night, Pet

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• You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Blood, House, Triumph

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• I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike.

  David Sedaris

  Mother, Cat, Hunger Strike

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

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• The human and fallible should not arrogate a power with which the divine and perfect alone can be safely intrusted.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Divine, Should, Humans

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.116, Penguin

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