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• The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

  Stephan Pastis

  Dirty, Expression, People

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• Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long, grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

  Boris Pasternak

  Sleep, Long, Understanding

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Daughter, Running, Atheist

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2010.

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• A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, School, Mean

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• The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

  Milan Kundera

  Reality, Men, Echoes

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• What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.

  Jack Vance

  Use, Answers, Tongue

  Jack Vance (2000). “Mazirian the Magician: (previously titled The Dying Earth)”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Romanian? That's impressive," said Jace. "Not many people speak it." "Do you?" Sebastian asked with interest. "Not really," Jace said with a smile so disarming Simon knew he was lying. "My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, 'Are these snakes poisonous?' and 'But you look much too young to be a police officer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Snakes, People

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.930, Simon and Schuster

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• She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.

  Djuna Barnes

  Sweet, Thinking, Wicked

  Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing

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• You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.

  Aldous Huxley

  Hurt, Thinking, Upset

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mean, Destiny, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look. I felt that happening now." "Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Giving, Brain

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• Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

  John Wesley

  Holiness, Christ, Holy

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.593

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• No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

  David O. McKay

  Jesus, Real, Teaching

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• It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Mean, Boys

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Song, Clever, Expression

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• Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

  George Sand

  Beautiful, Art, Sake

  Letter to Alexandre Saint-Jean, 1872

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• Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

  Jennifer Egan

  People, Republican, Unforgivable

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.88, Anchor

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• I have always liked the phrase "nursing a grudge " because many people are tender of their resentments as of the thing nearest their hearts.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Heart, Nursing, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I hear the phrase 'if I might be so bold' one more time, as God is my witness, I'm going to toss you into the channel!" "Oh dear," Penelope said. "Perhaps he does have the fever, after all.Perriwick , what do you think?" The butler reached for Blake's forehead, only to have his hand nearly bitten off. "Touch me and die," Blake snarled.

  Julia Quinn

  Thinking, Hands, Doe

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• There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Blood, Honest Woman, Influence

  Charlotte Bronte (2006). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.258, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Have you noticed how difficult it is just to get along in the world? If you're no good at all in your job, people treat you badly and eventually you will be unemployed. And if you're a little better than competent, everyone expects miracles from you, every single time. Like most of life, it's a no-win situation. And if you dare to mention it, no matter how creatively you phrase your complaints, you are shunned as a whiner.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Jobs, Winning, People

  Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.27, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wander, Single Word, Higher

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

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• I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kisses wwere a rarity for me growing up, and when they did happen, they often struck me as lifeless, something he did because he felt he was supposed to, not because he wanted to.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Dad, Growing Up, Kissing

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “Dear John”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?

  Virginia Woolf

  Notebook, Stories, Used

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.137, Virginia Woolf

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• Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

  Vince Flynn

  Stupid, People, Doubt

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