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• I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.

  Francoise Sagan

  Eye, Kissing, Thinking

  Francoise Sagan (1956). “Certain Smile”

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• And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.

  Mark Haddon

  Latin, Stupid, Mean

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• Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Morning, Night

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• The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them apart, and even where one would fancy people should be united by the similarity of their sorrow, far more injustice and cruelty is generated than in comparatively placid surroundings.

  Anton Chekhov

  People, Understanding, Sorrow

  Anton Chekhov (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)”, p.1507, Delphi Classics

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• never trust a man who wears a pinkie ring. . . the only jewelry a guy should wear is a wedding band or a super bowl ring

  Jodi Picoult

  Men, Guy, Band

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.464, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesse, this is Craig. Craig, Jesse. You two should get along. Jesse's dead, too.

  Meg Cabot

  Two, Suze Simon

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.67, Pan Macmillan

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• I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my fault. Can I kill myself here, or should I do it outside, so the mess on your carpet doesn't upset your mother?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mother, Sorry, Upset

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Twisted”, p.40, Scholastic UK

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• Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too. I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feel of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

  Erin McKean

  Baby, Opportunity, Thinking

  Erin Mckean (2011). “The Secret Lives of Dresses”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• Matthew: Shall I remind you of some of the choicest remarks you made about me when I arrived here? Because they live in my memory as fresh as the day they were spoken. Mary: Oh, Matthew. What am I always telling you? You must pay no attention to the things I say. When they kiss, it is a long kiss, all the more passionate for being delayed far longer than it should have been.

  Jessica Fellowes

  Memories, Kissing, Should Have

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• Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Fear, Causes, Remember

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• Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of poetry besides the aim to make a poem, of engaging the materials, SHOULD be disappointed. If the poet does not have the chutzpah to jeopardize habituated assumptions and practices, what will be produced will be sleep without dream, a copy of a copy of a copy.

  Dean Young

  Dream, Writing, Sleep

  Dean Young (2010). “The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction”, Graywolf Press

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• Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

  Sara Zarr

  Should Have, Needs, Want

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.108, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

  David Almond

  Cat, Owl, Bats

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• Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Teaching, Progress

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• I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions.

  Charles Bukowski

  Funny, Powerful, Mean

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.

  Anne Lamott

  Long, Heaven, Chocolate

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.133, Anchor

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• The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Keys, Realizing, Key To Happiness

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• We're silent now, both waiting, till I remind myself that I'm the older one and should therefore initiate conversation. But I don't. I don't want to waste this girl with idle chitchat. She's beautiful.

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Girl, Waiting

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.101, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• There is warmth shooting through my broken body where there should be pain, and I put my arms around the back of his neck and I hold on to him. I hold on because you never know in this place when something good will be taken away.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Pain, Taken, Broken

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hate, Ideas, Ambitious

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• tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

  David Levithan

  Ocean, Thinking, Doe

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• We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.

  Ilona Andrews

  Trying, Said, Hard

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.266, Penguin

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• We shouldn't have been so scornful; we should have had compassion. But compassion takes work, and we were young.

  Margaret Atwood

  Compassion, Should Have, Young

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.15, Anchor

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• For me, marriage should be about partnership. How can you love someone you have to take care of like a child all the time? A wife is supposed to be a partner, and yes partners help each other when they need it, but they are supposed to be together because they want to in my book, not because one needs the other.

  Lynsay Sands

  Children, Book, Wife

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• Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

  Anne Frank

  Selfish, Tired, Thinking

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.54, Bantam

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