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• Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

  Tom Holt

  Choices, Matter, Used

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• There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

  Paula McLain

  Beautiful, Liars, Ocean

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• Inside was where she lived, physically and mentally. She resided in the horn of plenty of her own prodigious mind, fertilized by inexhaustible curiosity.

  Tim LaHaye

  Curiosity, Mind, Introvert

  Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2013). “The Rising: Antichrist is Born / Before They Were Left Behind”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

  Kristin Cashore

  Said

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.134, Penguin

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• You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.” He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.” She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.

  Shannon Hale

  Sorry, Silly, Practice

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• Percy looked at his friends. "I'm getting tired of this guy's shirt." "Combat time?" Piper grabbed her horn of plenty. "I hate wonder bread," Jason said. Together, they charged.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Tired, Guy

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• In explaining the growth of his faith, psychiatrist Gerald May writes, "I know that God is loving and that God’s loving is trustworthy. I know this directly, through the experience of my life. There have been plenty of times of doubt, especially when I used to believe that trusting God's goodness meant I would not be hurt. But having been hurt quite a bit, I know God's goodness goes deeper than all pleasure and pain it embraces them both." Ruthless Trust, pg 22

  Brennan Manning

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

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• We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Children, Men

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.297, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

  George Orwell

  Long, London, Towns

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.

  Charles Bukowski

  Reality, Law, Jail

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• The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Diversity, Together

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams From My Father”, p.10, Canongate Books

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• Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

  Richard Yates

  Real, People, Emptiness

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• We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it's time to stop.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Heart, Wrinkles, Hair

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

  Agatha Christie

  Hands, Age, Detectives

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Miss Marple 3-Book Collection 1: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Body in the Library, The Moving Finger”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

  Megan Hart

  Men, Ears, Legs

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• There were days when he touched the tip of her nose and it was enough, a miracle of plenty.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Miracle, Noses, Enough

  Helen Oyeyemi (2011). “Mr Fox”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• It's good to learn early that every show is a family - -complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Tough Love, Dysfunctional Relationship, Shows

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Good God, you don’t give up.” “Nope.” I laughed, couldn’t help it, and his smile spread in response to the sound. “I’m sure there are plenty of girls who want to go out on a date with you.” “There are.” “Wow. Modest aren’t you?” “Why should I be?” he shot back. “And I want to go out on a date with you. Not them.

  J. Lynn

  Girl, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• My father said once that if I didn't have my mother's ginger hair, I wouldn't blush or curse as easily. Which I though was unfair. I hardly ever curse or blush, even though I've had plenty of days that required both.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mother, Father, Hair

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• Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

  Haruki Murakami

  Revenge, Sophisticated, Form

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, August 25, 1995.

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• ...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opinion, Persons

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• Maybe I should sit. Plenty of people use sitting as a way to pass the time.

  Lauren Graham

  People, Sitting, Use

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.108, Ballantine Books

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• There was still plenty of water in the basement, and I felt it soaking me from the knees on down. If someone wanted to torture me until I told them a critical piece of information, all they would have to do is get my socks wet. It feels terrible.

  Daniel Handler

  Water, Pieces, Knees

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• Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Halloween, Home

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• Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Husband, Interesting, Horror

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