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• The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

  Regina Brett

  Phones, Circles, Ideas

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• If I have to spend prolonged periods of time in a trailer, I go mad. Stuck in a metal box doing nothing, I lie there paralysed with boredom.

  Romola Garai

  Lying, Boredom, Mad

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• At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

  Christine Quinn

  Needs

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• I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Girl, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Dream, Sleep, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

  A. A. Milne

  Rivers, Swim, Stones

  Joan Powers, A. A. Milne (1996). “Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

  Bill Watterson

  Hey, Faces, Your Face

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

  Douglas Adams

  Moving, Challenges, Finding Yourself

  Douglas Adams (1985). “The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts”, Random House Value Publishing

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• I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

  Eduardo Galeano

  Sleep, Eyelids, Throat

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• [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Littles, Cobain

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• Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry? You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Motivational, Cheating, Morning

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• Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.58, Penguin

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• But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

  Douglas Adams

  Light, Filing Cabinet, Doors

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.28, Del Rey

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• Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.

  Annie Dillard

  Morning, Eden, Dust

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.28, Canongate Books

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• Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Flower, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 2, sc. 4, l. 51

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• But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

  Sarah Vowell

  Mother, Heart, Home

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• Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Wish, Care

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.182, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

  Stephen King

  School, Class, World

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• When you don't fit in, you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else's eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you're still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vat of acid, the Joker who can't remove his mask, the bionic man who's missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal, but that was so long ago, you can't even remember what it was like.

  Jodi Picoult

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

  Alberto Manguel

  Order, Vision, Library

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.48, Vintage Canada

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• I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley.

  Jeff Kinney

  School, One Day, Middle

  "Diary of a Wimpy Kid". Book by Jeff Kinney, April 1, 2007.

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• It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.

  Janet Fitch

  Beach, Art, Flower

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• Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

  Janet Evanovich

  Birthday, Lying, Thinking

  Janet Evanovich (1988). “Thanksgiving”, Loveswept

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• He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Blue, Octopus

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