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• When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

  Gerald Brenan

  Writing, Pages, Wells

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• Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

  Eudora Welty

  Character, Would Be, Plot

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• Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, Principles, Citizens

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Late President of the United States”, p.291

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• One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Running, Military

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• A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.

  Damon Galgut

  Journey, Space, Gestures

  "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

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• The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong - you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Mean, Creating

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• If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not possible. This result oriented mind is the only barrier, the only block. There are not many blocks, the only block is that of the result oriented mind: never here-now, always somewhere else thinking of the result; while making love, thinking about the result.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Block, Thinking

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• All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.

  Anthony Burgess

  Life, Atheism, Ghost

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• When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be somewhere else.

  David Levithan

  Want, Persons

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.136, Egmont UK

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• ...Go somewhere else. Somewhere safer.” Anywhere else. God, please. Or he was likely to do something horribly awful, like surrender his sanity and kiss her.

  Anne Mallory

  Kissing, Awful, Sanity

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• You can say anything with a Post-It. I’m not entirely sure why that is. Maybe the friendliness of the squares makes it easier. A square is nicely compact and less intimidating than a full page. And they come in cheerful colors. Non-white paper is kind of inherently festive. Or maybe paper that sticks feels more important than paper that can blow away. (Though you can move them, if you need to put them somewhere else.) They might not be as lasting as words carved in stone, but Post-It thoughts will stay. For awhile, at least.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Moving, Blow, Squares

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• This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Moments, Absent

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• If I'm going to cry, now is the time. By morning, I'll be able to wash all the damage done by the tears from my face. But no tears come. I'm too tired or too numb to cry. The only thing I feel is a desire to be somewhere else. So I let the train rock me into oblivion.

  Suzanne Collins

  Morning, Tired, Rocks

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.49, Scholastic Inc.

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• And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?

  Ian Mcewan

  Sky, People, Evening

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• At twenty life was like wrestling an octopus. Every moment mattered. At thirty it was a walk in the country. Most of the time your mind was somewhere else. By the time you got to seventy, it was probably like watching snooker on the telly.

  Mark Haddon

  Country, Wrestling, Octopus

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• The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

  Nick Burd

  World, Wander

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.204, Penguin

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• You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

  Luke Davies

  Beautiful, I Like You, Lovers

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.97, Penguin

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• I will not stand here to be insulted by you, hedgepig," Mangiz fumed. "Then stand somewhere else and I'll insult you there, featherbag!!

  Brian Jacques

  Insults You, Redwall, Insulted

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• One can often trace the sources of a brand personality - here it is the advertising, there the pack, somewhere else some physical element of the product. Of course, the personality is clearest and strongest when all the elements are consistent.

  Stephen King

  Business, Personality, Elements

  "Stephen King 1971: What is a brand?". www.campaignlive.co.uk. October 5, 2007.

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• I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I always wanted to be somewhere else. I have a window tattooed, this little box, and it’s because wherever I was, I wanted to be somewhere else. And, I always saw myself, wherever I was in life, staring out the window.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sleep, Night, Thinking

  "Angelina Jolie: Billy Bob, Knives and Sex". abcnews.go.com. July 11.

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• Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.

  Alice Munro

  Thinking, Wish, Gone

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.248, Vintage

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• How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Life, Journey, Apathy

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• If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.

  Al Franken

  Years, Want, Messages

  "Al Franken Warns Facebook, Google Users: ‘You Are Their Product’" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Ungrateful, Wish, Moments

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's "supposed" to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else.

  Mark Cuban

  Motivation, Business, Red Flags

  "Mark Cuban: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. November 17, 2008.

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