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You have a steady fella?” Sam asked after a bit. “No fella can hold me for long.” Sam gave her a sideways glance. “That a challenge?” “No. A statement of fact.

Libba Bray

Long, Challenges, Facts

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[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who had pulled the night watch. Frank’s Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt was inside out. Percy wore pajama pants and a bronze breastplate, which was an interesting fashion statement. Hazel’s hair was all blown to one side as though she’d walked through a cyclone; and Leo had accidentally set himself on fire. His T-shirt was in charred tatters. His arms were smoking.

Rick Riordan

Fashion, Winter, Night

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I tilted my chin up a fraction. "You can't f-force me to stay here." I'd only agreed to come this far because I didn't want to stand out in the downpour, for one, and I had high hopes of finding a phone, for two. "That sounded more like a question than a statement," said Patch. "Then ans-s-swer it." His rogue smile crept out. "It's hard to concentrate on answers with you looking like that." I glanced down at Patch's black shirt, wet and clinging to my body. I brushed past him and shut the bathroom door between us.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Past, Phones, Doors

Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

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Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.

Sam Harris

Lying, Reality, Facts

Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.33, Four Elephants Press

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Thomas had a depressing - and scary - thought. 'Am I . . . replacing someone? Did somebody get killed?' Minho shook his head. 'No, we're just training you - someone'll want a break. Don't worry, it's been a while since a Runner was killed.' For some reason that last statement worried Thomas, though he hoped it didn't show on his face.

James Dashner

Depressing, Worry, Scary

James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Movie Tie-In Edition (Maze Runner, Book One)”, p.193, Delacorte Press

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One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Hannah Arendt

Twenties, Facts, Advantage

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His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

John Fowles

Should Have, Forever, Has Beens

"The French Lieutenant's Woman".

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As Marcus considered various ways to open the subject of Daisy, Swift surprised him with a blunt statement. “My lord, there is something I would like to discuss with you.” Marcus adopted a pleasantly encouraging expression. “Very well.” “It turns out that Miss Bowman and I have reached an…understanding. After considering the logical advantages on both sides, I have made a sensible and pragmatic decision that we should—” “How long have you been in love with her?” Marcus interrupted, inwardly amused. Swift let out a tense sigh. “Years,” he admitted.

Lisa Kleypas

Love, Expression, Years

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Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

Maria Semple

Thinking, People, Boxes

Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.10, Hachette UK

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Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.

Richelle Mead

Dragons, Logical Arguments, Bags

Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.152, Penguin

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The criminal misuse of time was pointing out the mistakes. Catching them―noticing them―that was essential. If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement. The part of the man's statement that was true, however, was about the uselessness of speaking up. If I know that the teacher is wrong, and say nothing, then I remain the only one who knows, and that gives me an advantage over those who believe the teacher.

Orson Scott Card

Teacher, Mistake, Believe

Orson Scott Card (2002). “Ender's Shadow”, p.79, Macmillan

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That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca’s experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.

Frances Hardinge

Thinking, Want, Unthinkable

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There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.

Maggie Stiefvater

Way, Strange, Forgotten

Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.161, Scholastic Inc.

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Because there’s a clock attached to every beautiful woman. From the second she comes into her own, she begins to decline, because she begins to age. Aging is every beautiful woman’s kryptonite. And so, yes, it’s ridiculous and no, you don’t have much time and of course it’s not fair. Those three statements are the essence of beauty.

Paul Rudnick

Beautiful, Essence, Kryptonite

Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.57, Scholastic Inc.

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I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own.

Graeme Simsion

Selfish, Character, Emotional

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Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. ‘I haven’t really noticed,’ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.

Graeme Simsion

Beautiful, Men, Next Day

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You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

Ann Aguirre

Beautiful, Moving, Numbness

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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

W. Somerset Maugham

Time, Learning, Long

W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.

Shakti Gawain

Motivational, Strong, Affirmation

Shakti Gawain (2015). “The Shakti Gawain Essentials: 3 Books in 1: Creative Visualization, Living in the Light & Developing Intuition”, p.24, Mango Media Inc.

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To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it.

Ken Blanchard

Learning, Play, Track

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It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A. C. Benson

Inspirational, Paper, Way

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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.

Vince Lombardi

Positive, Believe, Mind

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I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

M.I.A.

Music, Political, Feels

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A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

W. H. Auden

Believe, Writing, Poetry

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A politician thinks of the next election; a statement of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

James Freeman Clarke

Country, Party, Thinking

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