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• Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Play, Imagine, Manuals

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and you're writing it, and you're ingesting it, sometimes a single word just comes up over and over and over again. And if you're trying to capture the essence of what it is you're trying to tell, you don't have a whole lot of space.

  Andrew Aydin

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn.

  Vladimir Lenin

  League, Tasks, Might

  V. I. Lenin (2008). “Lenin on Literature and Art”, p.126, Wildside Press LLC

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• A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.

  Frances Trollope

  Country, Race, Arrogance

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.325

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• Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself.

  Timothy Dwight V

  Angel, Names, Perfection

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• The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not.

  Paul Westerberg

  Song, Truth, Writing

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• When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone.

  Rachel Vincent

  Children, Father, Smart

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.244, MIRA

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• I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of skeletal warriors, who can destroy by touch alone. I can raise a wall of ice to protect those I serve. The invisible is discernible to my eyes. Ordinary magic spells crumble in my presence... But I bow in the presence of a master. -- Lord Soth to Raistlin Majere

  Margaret Weis

  Wall, Eye, Warrior

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Time of the Twins: Legends, Volume One”, p.116, Wizards of the Coast

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• I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.

  Virginia Woolf

  Phrases, Wander, Higher

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.13, Collector's Library

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• At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Two, Silence, Would Be

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• She loved her mother and depended on her mother, and yet every single word her mother said annoyed her.

  Ann Brashares

  Mother, Annoyed, Said

  Ann Brashares (2011). “Sisterhood Everlasting (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants): A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• The voice that arises out of the silence is something no one can imagine until it is heard. It roars when it speaks, it lies to you and convinces you, it steals from you and leaves you without a single word of comfort.

  Alice Hoffman

  Lying, Voice, Silence

  Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Eye, White, Pages

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• His reply offers infinite solace in a single word. Always.

  Ann Aguirre

  Infinite, Solace, Offers

  Ann Aguirre (2010). “Killbox”, p.219, Penguin

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• What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

  Linda Howard

  Said, Protest, Rough

  Linda Howard (2007). “Up Close and Dangerous: A Novel”, p.206, Ballantine Books

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• Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

  Pat Conroy

  Book, Giving, Give Me

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• No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Resurrection, Christ, Immortality

  "My Religion". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Chapter 8, 1884.

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• I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Song, Hair, Ipods

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• Never has there been a map, however carefully executed to detail and scale, which has carried its owner over even one inch of ground. Never has there been a parchment of law, however fair, which prevented one crime. Never has there been a scroll, even such as the one I hold, which so much as a penny or produced a single word of acclamation. Action, alone, is the tinder which ignites the map, the parchment, this scroll, my plans, my goals, into a living force. Action is the food and drink which will nourish my success. I will act now.

  Og Mandino

  Law, Goal, Details

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.71, Bantam

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• When I pick up a pencil, that this is a rough draft. This is not going anywhere, and no one's going to see it. You have permission to make all the mistakes you want. It signals freedom to me, and it signals mistakes. Then when I put it on the computer, a different part of my brain kicks in and I really evaluate every single word and sentence and make decisions. I like that step of polishing while I'm rewriting the entire thing, not just cutting and pasting. Really putting in every word and making a decision: is this something I can stand by?

  Lily King

  Mistake, Cutting, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

  Justin Townes Earle

  Father, Teenager

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• The program of liberalism if condensed into a single word, would have to read: property, that is, private ownership of the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Liberty, Libertarian, Economic

  "The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism".

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• Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

  Clive Barker

  Spring, Writing, Stories

  Clive Barker (2001). “Weaveworld”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Home, Order, I Have Learned

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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