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Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Jeannette Walls

Cutting, Should Have, Wings

Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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A wise ruler takes advice, but should never be seen to take it. Let them think you know more than you do. It will not harm them, and it will help you.

Robert Jordan

Wise, Thinking, Advice

Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.167, Macmillan

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Who can tell truth from falsehood any more? I say it, and you feel it in your hearts: no man or woman on this big small earth. How should our sages miss the mark of life, and our most skillful players lose the game? your hearts will tell you, as my heart has told me: because all know, and no one understands.

e. e. cummings

Heart, Player, Men

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They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.

Koushun Takami

Believe, Together, Might

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They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

Max Brooks

Hate, War, Men

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The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

Tahir Shah

Together, Firsts, Sticks

Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.236, Lulu.com

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Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.

William Shakespeare

Kings, War, Greatness

William Shakespeare (2012). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.2393, Graphic Arts Books

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I exchanged my flannel shirt for a Rangers jersey and zapped the television on. Probably I should make more phone calls, but the Rangers were playing and priorities were priorities.

Janet Evanovich

Phones, Priorities, Flannels

Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.

Ki Longfellow

Self, Choices, Doe

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There should be a vaccine against Adam Black. And all women should be given it at birth.

Karen Marie Moning

Vaccines, Black, Birth

Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.121, Delacorte Press

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My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.

Jennifer Crusie

Pain, Moving, Fall

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She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

Edith Wharton

Two, Together, Amusement

Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1608, Delphi Classics

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I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.

Veronica Roth

Brother, Kissing, Land

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Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Thinking, People

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When you write, you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and feel it's good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You're not likely ever to get all these things, and you're not likely to give up writing and commit suicide if you don't, but that is -- and should be -- your goal. Anything else is kind of piddling.

Dashiell Hammett

Suicide, Giving Up, Writing

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I should probably start with the blood.

Robin Wasserman

Blood

Robin Wasserman (2012). “The Book of Blood and Shadow”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat Doctor said too dangerous to take out You’d better just leave it be Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be Now, if only I could get through airport security “bullet

Gayle Forman

Heart, Airports, Doctors

Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.71, Penguin

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You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like that.

Larissa Ione

Often Can, Might, Faces

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...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

Lauren Oliver

Coffee, Home, Missing

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Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Greg Behrendt

Feels, Scrap, Honored

Greg Behrendt, Liz Tuccillo (2009). “He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.

Louise Rennison

Dream, Boys, Should Have

"Withering Tights". Book by Louise Rennison, 2011.

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Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.

Veronica Roth

Honesty, Knowing, Guilt

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I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in the back room of the tattoo parlor. Before the attack simulation I might have called it a thirst for justice, or even revenge, but now I am able to identify it as a thirst for blood. And even as it frightens me, I understand it. Which should probably frighten me even more.

Veronica Roth

Tattoo, Brother, Revenge

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It is likely that unlikely things should happen

Aristotle

Unlikely, Happens

Aristotle, George Maximilian Anthony Grube, Donald J. Zeyl (1958). “On Poetry and Style”, p.60, Hackett Publishing

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Dumbledore lowered his hands and surveyed Harry through his half-moon glasses. 'It is time,’ he said, ‘for me to tell you what I should have told you five years ago, Harry. Please sit down. I am going to tell you everything.

J. K. Rowling

Moon, Glasses, Hands

J. K. Rowling (2004). “Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa”, Bloomsbury Children

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