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• It's the first line in your book. I always thought there was a lot of truth in that. Or maybe that's what my English teacher said. I can't really remember. I read it last semester." - Your parents must be so proud you can read." - They are. They bought me a pony and everything when I did a book report on Cat in the Hat.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Teacher, Book, Cat

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• a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being

  e. e. cummings

  Fascination, Movement, Poet

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• Fresh wounds," said Angua. "But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident." "I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest," said Vimes.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Self, Legs

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• This is my report on how to live... They say the best way is just to live one day at a time... If you try to live seven days at a time, the week will be over before you know it.

  Charles M. Schulz

  One Day At A Time, Trying, Way

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• I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Gay, Self

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.8, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Halloween, Heart

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 4, sc. 1, l. [218]

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• i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

  Rick Riordan

  Sacrifice, Rocks, Sea

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Childhood, Leaving, Becoming

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• If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Slaughterhouse Five, Earth

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• As I glanced at the phraseology of the research report, dull and unfathomable to outsiders like me, I thought that if you have the ambition to become a villain, the first thing you should do is learn to be impenetrable. Don’t act like Blofeld—monocled and ostentatious. We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.

  Jon Ronson

  Hate, Writing, Ambition

  Jon Ronson (2012). “Jon Ronson's Adventures With Extraordinary People”, p.534, Pan Macmillan

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• The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally," said Dumbledore, "if only accidentally.

  J. K. Rowling

  Prophet, Said, Ifs

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Book 6)". Book by J. K. Rowling, July 16, 2005.

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• So much there is to see, but our morning eyes describe a different world than do our afternoon eyes, and surely our wearied evening eyes can report only a weary evening world.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Eye, Different

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.47, Penguin

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• I didn't expect a knife, though. Is it the one missing from the kitchen?" "Did Rand report it?" I felt betrayed. Why hadn't he just asked for it back? "No. It just makes sense to keep track of large kitchen knives, so when one goes missing you're not surprised when someone attacks you with it.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Knives, Track, Missing

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.132, Harlequin

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• Such a fuss ofer a few mundanes." Mrs Dark chuckled and moved to stand beside her sister, so that Will, with his blazing sword, was between Tessa and both ladies. "We have no quarrel with you, Shadowhunter, unless you choose to pick one. You have invaded our territory and broken the Covenant Law in doing so. We could report you to the Clave-" "While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly, they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way," Will said

  Cassandra Clare

  Dark, Views, Law

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Lord Maccon looked up. “Grovel, you say?” Lyall did not glance away from the latest vampire report he was perusing. “Grovel, my lord.

  Gail Carriger

  Vampire, Lord, Glances

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• We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent and in doing good to all men; indeed we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul - We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Believe, Men, Lovely

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• I’ve had reports of this one being in the city, but no close-up pictures till now. He’s some kind of pretty. I could just take a bite out of that firm—

  Nalini Singh

  Cities, Kind, Firm

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: Guild Hunters Novels 1-4”, p.233, Penguin

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• I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

  William Hazlitt

  Lying, Hate, Eye

  William Hazlitt (1826). “The plain speaker: opinions on books, men, and things [by W. Hazlitt].”, p.364

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• I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per week. Do you mean the flower of America's masculinity can't think of anything more important to do with twenty hours a week than sit in front of a video screen? Folks, this ain't normal. Can't we unplug already?

  Joel Salatin

  Flower, Mean, Men

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• In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Water, Monsters, Survivor

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• People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the extent of coverage in the media. Frequently mentioned topics populate the mind even as others slip away from awareness. In turn, what the media choose to report corresponds to their view of what is currently on the public’s mind. It is no accident that authoritarian regimes exert substantial pressure on independent media. Because public interest is most easily aroused by dramatic events and by celebrities, media feeding frenzies are common

  Daniel Kahneman

  Memories, Independent, Views

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• What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

  John le Carre

  Misery, These Days, Journalist

  John le Carre (2002). “The Honourable Schoolboy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more.

  John le Carre

  Enough Said, Want, Arms

  John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• There are still eight of us,” Guy pointed out. “Not exactly an even fight.” “I was thinking the same thing,” Mauvin said. “Sadly, there’s no one else here we can ask to join your side.” Guy looked at Mauvin, then Hadrian, for a long moment as the men glared across the ash at each other. Then he nodded and lowered his blade. “Well, I can see I’ll have to report your misconduct to the archbishop.” “Go ahead,” Hadrian said. “His body is buried with the rest of them just down the hillside.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sunshine, Joy, Sorrow

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