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• Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

  Keith Ablow

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Blessing, Years

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.136, Macmillan

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• Every seven years our bodies change, every cell. Every seven years, we disappear.

  Jenny Downham

  Cells, Years, Body

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children, from prostitutes, family friends, travelers, and adulterous wives. Women said "I love you" without his ever speaking. "The more you love someone," he came to think, "the harder it is to tell them." It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say "I love you".

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Love You, Past

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• It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

  Jane Austen

  Time, Loneliness, Opportunity

  Sense and Sensibility vol. 2, ch. 12 (1811)

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• I was a little excited but mostly blorft. "Blorft" is an adjective I just made up that means 'Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.' I have been blorft every day for the past seven years.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Stress, Mean

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• I didn't do it,' he insisted. 'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked. 'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl,' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

  Michael Buckley

  Girl, Running, Years

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• Screw up my life?" He stared at me for a second and then said, deadpan, "I'm a five-foot-three, thirty-seven-year-old, single, Jewish medical examiner who needs to pick up his lederhosen from the dry cleaners so that he can play in a one-man polka band at Oktoberfest tomorrow." He pushed up his glasses with his forefinger, folded his arms, and said, "Do your worst.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Feet, Glasses

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.63, Penguin

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• How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra. "Almost seven years." "Then you have probably forgotten all about it." "Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.

  Jose Rizal

  Country, Long, Noli Me Tangere

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• I'm no good at describing my books. 'Holes' has been out now for seven years, and I still can't come up with a good answer when asked what that book is about.

  Louis Sachar

  Book, Years, Answers

  "A Few Words From Louis Sachar". "Small Steps" Hardcover Edition, www.randomhouse.com. 2008.

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• The Practice I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long.

  Kelli Williams

  Writing, Years, Law

  "Actress Kelli Williams". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. July 12, 2010.

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• For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Spiritual, Father, Russia

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (1969). “Only One Year”

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• [To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

  Dorothy Parker

  Husband, Years, Long

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• I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped form a base for me as far as dancing.

  Ryan Guzman

  Art, Thinking, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I spent seven years writing The Free World. There are a lot of things I accomplished there that I'm very proud of, but I didn't want to spend another seven years writing a book like that.

  David Bezmozgis

  Book, Writing, Years

  The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

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• One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Running, Years, Careers

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Everything that I've accomplished in life was because of America and because of California, so I should take seven years out of my life to be a public servant and to serve the people of California regardless of the lack of pay.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Years, California, America

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Years, African American, Challenges

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• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  Penelope Leach

  Children, Drama, Eye

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• Show me a woman content with her figure and I'll show you a seven-year-old girl. Everybody else is engaged in the war against flab.

  Polly Bergen

  Girl, War, Years

  Polly Bergen (1974). “Polly's principles; Polly Bergen tells you how you can feel and look as young as she does”, Peter H. Wyden Incorporated

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• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  Nadya Suleman

  Years, Trying, Seven

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• You know every cell in our bodies is completely renewed every seven years, so how can we talk about being the same person? We're absolutely not.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cells, Years, Body

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

  Danielle Fishel

  Years, People, Passionate

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• For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.

  Adrienne Monnier

  Fashion, Real, Years

  Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.237, U of Nebraska Press

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• We [women] have borne and bred and washed and taught, perhaps to the age of six or seven years, the one thousand six hundred and twenty-three million human beings who are, according to statistics, at present in existence, and that ... takes time.

  Virginia Woolf

  Years, Age, Statistics

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.85, Oxford University Press, USA

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