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• I sat with him for three hours and we did not exchange a single word. At the end he handed me, as he had done before, an envelope with money in it. It would have been much nicer if he had enclosed a greeting or a loving word. I would have been so pleased if he had.

  Eva Braun

  Three, Cards, Done

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• Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Life, Writing, Men

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• Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Disappointment, Regret, Believe

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Spiritual, Sadness, Sick

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• Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.

  Derek Webb

  Stories, Categories, Who You Are

  FaceBook post by Derek Webb from Sep 06, 2011

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• a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  May, Sparks

  'A Defence of Poetry' (written 1821; published 1840)

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• true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.

  Jodi Picoult

  True Love, Heart, Love Is

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• Every single word you have spoken is sharp, sarcastic and twisted. When I thought you were abnormal you suddenly turned out to be normal. When I thought you were normal you turned out to be abnormal.

  Jae Hee

  Sarcastic, Drama, Normal

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• Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

  Honore de Balzac

  Looks, Sometimes, Moments

  Honore de Balzac (1899). “A Passion in the Desert”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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• Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

  Lauren Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Fall

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• Consider this: there is not a single word in [the Sermon on the Mount] about what to believe, only words about what to do. It is a behavioral manifesto, not a propositional one. Yet three centuries later, when the Nicene Creed became the official oath of Christendom, there was not a single word in it about what to do, only words about what to believe!

  Robin Meyers

  Believe, Three, Creeds

  Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll

  Patty Duke

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Breakfast

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• If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a child I always had a secret world and my favorite book was “A Secret Garden.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Children, Book

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• Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Long, Romance, Abstract

  Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1931). “The King's English”, Oxford University Press

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• At the desk where I sit, I have learned one great truth. The answer for all our national problems - the answer for all the problems of the world - come to a single word. That word is "education."

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Educational, Answers, World

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• I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Long, Hearing

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.143, Courier Corporation

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• A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Chill, Cynicism, Cynic

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word threreto. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.

  Frederick Douglass

  America, People, President

  "The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery?" by Frederick Douglass, March 26, 1860.

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• Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs. The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making.

  Clive Barker

  Spring, Voice, Age

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

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• Seven minutes is all you get to make a positive first impression. In the first seven minutes of contact with your church, your first-time guests will know whether or not they are coming back. That’s before a single worship song is sung and before a single word of the message is uttered.

  Nelson Searcy

  Song, Church, First Impression

  Nelson Searcy (2010). “Fusion: Turning First-Time Guests into Fully-Engaged Members of Your Church (Large Print 16pt)”, p.28, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

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• Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Motivational, Loving What You Do

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, December 1999.

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• No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words

  Brennan Manning

  Men, Word Of God

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.29, Multnomah

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