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• There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.

  George Eliot

  Drama, Character, Creating

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.210, Booklassic

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• And it really doesn't matter if we're under our desks with our hands over our heads or not, does it? No, said Mrs. Baker. It doesn't really matter. So, why are we practicing? She thought for a minute. Because it gives comfort, she said. People like to think that if they're prepared then nothing bad can really happen. And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Thinking, Hands, Practice

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

  T. S. Eliot

  Giving, Ordinary, Alive

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• An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully only -- demon. Three minutes after that I looked at my demon and burst into laughter. "What?" the demon asked, turning its head 360 degrees to examine itself "What's so Funny?" "Why is the Summoner laughing and crying at the same time? I don't see what's so funny. I'm a demon; where's my respect? Where's the fear and cowering before me?

  Katie MacAlister

  Laughter, Laughing, House

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• I haven’t prepared my speech yet,” I sighed and Tove stood up. “What should I say about him?” “Well, if you plan to say anything nice, you’re going to have to lie,” Tove muttered as he walked over to his closet.

  Amanda Hocking

  Nice, Lying, Say Anything

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.530, Pan Macmillan

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• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Zoos, Lying

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• Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

  Charles M. Schulz

  Confused, Thinking, Want

  "Peanuts". Comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, www.gocomics.com. September 9, 1959.

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• Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.

  Neil Gaiman

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• School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Real, School, Personality

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.165, Hachette UK

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• What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

  Sandra Brown

  Giving Up, Hard Work, Writing

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• You've read half the books in this house? This whole house?" "Well, approximately half." Sticky said. "To be more accurate, I suppose I've read more like" - his eyes went up as he calculated - "three sevenths? Yes, three sevenths." "Only three sevenths?" said Kate, pretending to look disappointed. "And here I was prepared to be impressed.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Book, Eye, House

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• Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?" "Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?

  Cate Tiernan

  House, Flashlights, Wells

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.105, Penguin

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• If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Pain, Exercise, Feel Good

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• America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, America, People

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• So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are passionate: I expected a scene of some kind. I was prepared for the hot rain of tears; only I wanted them to be shed on my breast: now a senseless floor has received them, or your drenched handkerchief. But I err: you have not wept at all! I see a white cheek and faded eye, but no trace of tears. I suppose, then, that your heart has been weeping blood?

  Charlotte Bronte

  Rain, Eye, Heart

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Edition”, p.118, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Fighting, Thinking, Fairs

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• What I think and what Iam prepared to say are entirely different things.

  Michelle Moran

  Thinking, Different, Different Things

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• But when he thought to complain about the burden of its weight, he remembered that, because he had the jacket, he had withstood the cold of the dawn. We have to be prepared for change, he thought, and he was grateful for the jacket's weight and warmth. The jacket had a purpose, and so did the boy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Grateful, Boys, Dawn

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

  James P. Carse

  Preparation, Consciousness, Surprise

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• Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.

  Morris Gleitzman

  Waiting, Advice, Yards

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  A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Voting, Politics, American Revolution

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.105, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit.“It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami.

  Kelley Armstrong

  New York, Dad, Moving

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• Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

  Sandra Brown

  Hard Work, Be Prepared, Hard

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• I met a woman She had a mouth like yours She knew your life She knew your devils and your deeds And she said "Go to him, stay with him if you can But be prepared to bleed

  Joni Mitchell

  Devil, Mouths, Deeds

  Song: A Case of You

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• Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven.

  Brigham Young

  Father, Home, Son

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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