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• The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

  Aleister Crowley

  Boredom, Way, Facts

  Aleister Crowley (2010). “The Diary of a Drug Fiend”, p.47, Weiser Books

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• Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

  Stephen King

  Simple, Race, Blue

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.

  Emily Bronte

  Want, Faculty, Trifles

  "Wuthering Heights".

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• What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Angel, Half, Infinite

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1930). “The Stark Munro letters ; Danger! ; Other stories”

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• 'You hate America, don't you?'
  'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Hate, Real

  "Mother Night". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1961.

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• Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror. Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?" Don't you wish you knew?" Yes," he said simply. Well, you'll just have to wonder." I am," he said. "Blond everywhere," I could tell as much from your chest hair." He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.

  Charlaine Harris

  Girlfriend, Mirrors, Hair

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and shambled like an ape doing a trick, and her face was the silly, bewildered face of a joker's victim. And yet she could make no move that was not beautiful. Her trapped terror was more lovely than any joy that Molly had ever seen, and that was the most terrible thing about it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Beautiful, Moving, Hands

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Unhappy, Being Unhappy

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.83, Broadview Press

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• The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Self, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.135, Penguin

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• What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

  William Saroyan

  Lonely, America, Armenians

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• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Love Is, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.104, Wordsworth Editions

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• Silly of me not to have realized it. One often finds Greek temples lurking in the woods of English estates. Sneaky things, temples.

  Victoria Alexander

  Greek, Woods, Temples

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• You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Character, London, Scandal

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• I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Dog, Brother

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• And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if you’re caught stealing?' No, they don’t do that, Henry said uncertainly. Why not? It’s pretty silly not to, isn’t it?' Blue said.

  Herbie Brennan

  Cutting, Blue, Hands

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• It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. "What's the silly giggling about?" Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.

  Cornelia Funke

  Past, Laughing, Swagger

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• It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things.

  Ray Bradbury

  Names, People, Grandpa

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• It is always the silly things that remind me

  Alexandra Potter

  Silly Things

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• Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.

  Booth Tarkington

  Names, Mouths

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2178, eBookIt.com

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• I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Believe, Dresses, Want

  Michael Thomas Ford (2005). “Looking For It”, p.80, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Effort, Tangible

  Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.39, Penguin

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• Oh dear," said Sarah anxiously, "I do wish he wouldn't do these silly things." I'm sure we all wish that, Sarah," said Marcia sternly. "But unfortunately he has progressed rather further than the silly stage. Evil-minded-scheming stage is more what I would call it.

  Angie Sage

  Evil, Wish, Stage

  Angie Sage (2012). “Flyte: Septimus Heap Book 2 (Rejacketed)”, p.347, A&C Black

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• We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Hurt, Hate, Ocean

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• This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Angel, Games, Life And Death

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• It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

  Raymond Chandler

  Hair, Voice, House

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.222, Modern Library

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