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• It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

  David Walliams

  Sadness, Way, Strange

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• Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round

  Joel Salatin

  Data, Agendas, Way

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• Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Running, Years, House

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.202, Penguin

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• There is simply too much to be done for us all to go round 'enjoying ourselves.' When the world is perfect, then we can all sit down and eat jelly beans, but for now the fact that things are going well for you just means that you are in a position to alleviate someone else's suffering for a while.

  Jon Richardson

  Mean, Perfect, Suffering

  Jon Richardson (2011). “It’s Not Me, It’s You!: Impossible perfectionist, 27, seeks very very very tidy woman”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• Now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and to take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn round in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself. If you loved me I should be as gentle as a lamb; and you could do anything with me that you pleased.

  Gaston Leroux

  Sunday, People, Wife

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• because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

  e. e. cummings

  Spring, People, Way

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• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Names, Intellectual

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• With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.

  Paul Celan

  Eye, Keys, Blood

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

  Graham Chapman

  Mean, Holy Grail, Peasants

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• Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Couple, Hands, Twists

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Ark angel”, Putnam Juvenile

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• I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment—what is this, then? I do not ask any more delight—I swim in it, as in a sea.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Sea, Breathing

  Walt Whitman (2017). “Leaves of Grass”, p.112, Gibbs Smith

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• As much as thinking this upsets me, I'm starting to see that I need the merry-go-round much more than it needs me, and in the end my choice is to hop back on or get left in the dust.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Thinking, Dust, Choices

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

  George Orwell

  Romantic, Hair, Smell

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.234, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Light, Hands, Ivory

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1418, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own good—only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?

  Ralph Ellison

  Sacrifice, Merry Go Round, Wanted

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.518, Vintage

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• Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

  Ford Madox Ford

  War, Mean, White

  Ford Madox Ford (2012). “Parade's End”, p.20, Vintage

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• The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Heart, Knowing, Secret

  Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.234, Penguin

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• A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government!

  Golda Meir

  Men, Israel, Doubt

  "Israel’s Iron Lady Unfiltered: 17 Golda Meir Quotes on Her 117th Birthday" by Judd Yadid, www.haaretz.com. May 03, 2015.

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• ...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still Mr Kassar, you can trust us!’ He wimped out though, and made us use salt. Very boring.

  John Marsden

  Dark, Yelling, Dancing

  John Marsden (2000). “Burning for Revenge”, p.148, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to matter, whom you haven't met yet, all the choices you are going to have to make, everything you might achieve, and all the possible failures – unreal now? The future flaps round my head like a cloud of midges.

  A. S. Byatt

  Clouds, People, Choices

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• I miss her all the time. I know in my head that she has gone. the only difference is that I am getting used to the pain. It's like discovering a great hole in the ground. To begin with, you forget it's there and keep falling in. After a while, it's still there, but you learn to walk round it.

  Rachel Joyce

  Pain, Fall, Differences

  "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - review" by Alfred Hickling, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

  Sara Zarr

  Evil, Mind, Too Late

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• The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me, And I cannot, cannot go.

  Emily Bronte

  Blow, Night, Wind

  "The Night is Darkening Round Me". Poem by Emily Bronte, www.poetryfoundation.org. November 1837.

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