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• All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Racism, Analogies

  Russell Brand (2008). “My Booky Wook”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• Nothing is ever perfect. It is what you make of it.

  Emily Giffin

  Borrowed

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• Anxiety was not an emotion I could ever remember feeling when I went out in New York, and I wondered why tonight felt so different. Maybe it was because I no longer had a boyfriend or fiance. I suddenly recognized that there was safety in having someone, as well as a lack of pressure to shine. Ironically, this had cultivated a certain free-spiritedness that had, in turn, allowed me to be the life of the party and hoard the affection of additional men....But that had all changed. I didn't have a boyfriend, a perfect figure, or alcohol-induced outrageousness to fall back on.

  Emily Giffin

  New York, Fall, Party

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• We are walking down the street holding hands. There is a playground at the end of the block, and I run to the swings and I climb on and Henry takes the one next to me facing the opposite direction. And we swing higher and higher passing each other, sometimes in synch and sometimes streaming past each other so fast that it seems we are going to collide. And we laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost or dead or far away. Right now we are here and nothing can mar our perfection or steal the joy of this perfect moment.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Running, Block, Past

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• It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Beautiful, Baseball, Party

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• The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they lunatics in any ordinary sense. They were men of faith—perfect faith, as it turns out—and this, it must finally be acknowledged, is a terrible thing to be.

  Sam Harris

  Men, Media, September 11

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that's why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Imperfect World, Imperfection

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• It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

  Jane Green

  Disappointment, Thinking, Slim

  "Jemima J".

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• In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how much fate? Why did perfect matches crumble and impossible couples thrive? I dont know the answer better than they did. Love simply is where it is.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Couple, Fate, Mind

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.

  Johnny Depp

  Thinking, Nobody's Perfect, Way

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• we could hurt each other even when we weren't trying to, and that none of us was as perfect as we liked to pretend.

  Meg Waite Clayton

  Hurt, Trying

  Meg Waite Clayton (2008). “The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel”, p.245, Ballantine Books

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• This beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath.

  Gary Paulsen

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  Gary Paulsen (2007). “Caught by the Sea: My Life on Boats”, p.13, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Believe, Writing, Two

  "Selected Letters, 1917-1961".

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• Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

  Guy Finley

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Being Single

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• Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Wall, Two

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Apr 23, 2015

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• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action - here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect - whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Wisdom, Fun, Thinking

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• Darkness has completely descended onto the landscape and I stood up and stretched my arms above my head and I wondered what it would be like if it were a perfect world. Only god knows. And he is dead.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Darkness, Would Be, World

  David Wojnarowicz (2017). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.50, Canongate Books

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• ... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.

  Scott Lynch

  Brother, Cheer, Thinking

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• That sounds terrific, thought Cary, just you, your comatose wife your shell-shocked son, and your daughter who hates your guts. Not to mention that your two kids may be in love with each other. Yeah, that sounds like a perfect family reunion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Funny, Daughter, Hate

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• At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Butterfly, Dark

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• We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.

  Garth Stein

  Heart, Mirrors, Roots

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity. Any time I was feeling low, I'd naturally start to remember other times I felt that way, a hit parade of humiliations coming one after another to my mind.

  Cory Doctorow

  Stupid, Past, Opposites

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.294, Macmillan

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• Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.

  Thornton Wilder

  Beautiful, Two, Secret

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• The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

  William James

  Real, Night, Two

  William James (1985). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.61, Harvard University Press

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• Let the jerks of the world serve as the perfect example of what you don't want to be. You'll be a heck of a lot happier, and in the long run, there's a chance that other person at work will end up asking what your secret is. Why are you the happy one? In other words, don't let your thoughts think you. Besides, if you're really gonna get pissed, don't waste it on your family, friends, or coworkers, save it for something that really matters.

  Willie Nelson

  Running, Thinking, Long

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