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The intimate and the infinite are tangled together in this incandescent book, lit by Aristotle’s bright spark of a daughter. Lucid even in nightmare, The Sweet Girl slips sideways around the philosopher to examine the lives of girls and women when we were not yet human.

Marina Endicott

Girl, Daughter, Sweet

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Deliberando saepe perit occasio [The opportunity often slips away while we deliberate on it].

Publilius Syrus

Procrastination, Opportunity, Deliberate

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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.

Vikas Swarup

Rejection, Novelists, World

"I'm the luckiest novelist in the world" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.

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In times of unrest and in an unstable economy, it is very easy to let your attitude slip and begin feeling sorry for yourself. This is precisely when you want to practice healthy attitudinal rules to stay alert, alive and enthusiastic. Don't ever lose the zest for life and life won't lose its zest for you. Say something positive to every person you meet today.

Bob Proctor

Motivational, Sorry, Attitude

FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 04, 2011

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As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

Natalia Ginzburg

Dream, Regret, Reality

Natalia Ginzburg (2016). “The Little Virtues”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Data are pointing to very strong growth in the fourth quarter. The pessimistic viewpoint, which has seen its grip on reality slip to the last knuckle in the past few months, is now holding on by its fingernails.

Brian Wesbury

Strong, Past, Reality

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It would be easy for this conflict to slip off the political agenda given how long it has been going on but for the sake of the people of Nepal for whom it is a daily tragic reality, the world must remain engaged and keep up the pressure on the government and the Maoists.

Irene Khan

Reality, Government, Long

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So I lied to you last night. I said I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you. And that's why I have to slip out of your window now, like a coward. Because if I had to tell you this yo your face, I couldn't make myself go.

Cassandra Clare

Night, Romance, Coward

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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.

Steven Saylor

Writing, People, Skins

"MysteryPeople Q&A with Steven Saylor". Interview with Scott Butki, mysterypeople.wordpress.com. March 31, 2014.

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Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

J. Reuben Clark

Crush, Integrity, Patriotic

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I kept my arms around Joi and my face buried deep in her hair while I waited for Peter Pan to slip through the window. I thought I needed him to tell me what I should do. But he never showed up. He left me alone with a girl who smelled of jasmine and cocoa butter. And before I fell asleep, I finally realized that was more than enough.

Kirsten Miller

Girl, Hair, Jasmine

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What happens to me if this slipper fits?" "I turn you into a handsome frog.

Judith McNaught

Hands, Frogs, Fit

Judith McNaught (2016). “Double Standards”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life. The more time we spent together, the more I could imagine it lasting in the future. That’s never happened to me before, and I’m not sure it’ll ever happen again. I’ve never been in love with anyone before you came along — not real love anyway…not like this. And I’d be a fool if I let you slip away without a fight

Nicholas Sparks

Real, Fighting, Missing

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But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

Louise Erdrich

Children, Giving, Parent

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He does not start guiltily, as he should, but frowns in annoyance. "Who are you?" I slip my hand through the slit of my overskirt, and my fingers close around the hard wood of the crossbow tiller. "Vengeance," I say softly.

R.L. LaFevers

Hands, Doe, Woods

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Make use of time, let not advantage slip.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Life, Time

1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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Make use of time, let not advantage slip;
Beauty within itself should not be wasted:
Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime
Rot and consume themselves in little time.

William Shakespeare

Time, Flower, Use

1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 22, l.129-32.

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However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Time, Past, Giving

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You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James M. Barrie

Inspirational, Time, Golden

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A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Mark Twain

Death, Smart, Writing

Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3459, Delphi Classics

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Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the tale of history forms a very strong bulwark against the stream of time, and checks in some measure its irresistible flow, so that, of all things done in it, as many as history has taken over it secures and binds together, and does not allow them to slip away into the abyss of oblivion.

Anna Komnene

Strong, Taken, History

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It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind.

Jessica Sorensen

Wind, Forever, Want

Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.31, Hachette UK

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When desire is still in this pure state, the man and the woman fall in love with life, they live each moment reverently, consciously, always ready to celebrate the next blessing. When people feel like this, they are not in a hurry, they do not precipitate events with unthinking actions. They know that the inevitable will happen, that what is real always finds a way of revealing itself. When the moment comes, they do not hesitate, they do not miss an opportunity, they do not let slip a single magic moment, because they respect the importance of each second.

Paulo Coelho

Falling In Love, Real, Love Life

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If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.

Tony Robbins

Life, Attitude, Standards Set

FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 23, 2015

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By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.

Stephen King

Wall, Writing, Support

Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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