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• I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not change. It wasn't up to me. It was clear that the best thing to do was to adopt a sort of muddled cheerfulness.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Benefits, World, Ratios

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.81, Grove Press

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• There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for everyone involved. We tell ourselves that it's the right thing to do, the altruistic thing to do. It's far easier than telling ourselves the truth.

  Jodi Picoult

  Would Be, My Sisters Keeper, Easier

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Mean, Achieve

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Time, Childhood, Growth

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Drunk, Rooms

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.163, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

  Emily Giffin

  Dice, Borrowed, Picks

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.272, Macmillan

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• Her hands quieted. "Yeah. Because even if the law says that no one is responsible for anyone else, helping someone who needs it is the right thing to do." I sat down beside her, close enough that the skin of her arm hummed right next to mine. "You really believe that?" She looked down at her lap "Yeah." Then how," I asked, "can you walk away from me?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Hands, Helping Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.

  Peter Cameron

  Would Be, Way, Best Things

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• My notion of spirituality was different than it is now, but even if I'd been the most fundamentalist of believers, I would have assumed that God had better things to do than arbitrarily smite me with shaking palsy.

  Michael J. Fox

  Different, Spirituality, Notion

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.179, Random House

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• Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.

  Henry Rollins

  Running, Pain, Thinking

  Henry Rollins (1990). “High Adventure in the Great Outdoors”, 2 13 61

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• Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Passion, Joy

  Dr. Wayne W. Dyer (2013). “The Essential Wayne Dyer Collection”, p.459, Hay House, Inc

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• somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

  Randy Pausch

  Passage Of Time, Passages, Right Thing

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• Ralston didn't care. He turned on his brother as the surgeon knelt next to him and inspected the wound. "She could have been killed!" And what about you?" This time, it was Callie who spoke, her own pent-up energy releasing in anger, and the men turned as one to look at her, surprised that she and found her voice. "What about you and your idiotic pland to somehow restore my honor by playing guns out in the middle of nowhere with OXFORD?" She said the baron's name in disdain. "Like children? Of all the ridiculous, unnecessary, thoughtless, MALE things to do...who even FIGHTS duels anymore?!

  Sarah MacLean

  Brother, Children, Fighting

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• Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

  John Green

  Relationship, Easy, Break

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.36, Penguin

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• It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment.

  Christopher Paolini

  Punishment, World, Want

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• Even if we could grow our way out of the crisis and delay the inevitable and painful reconciliation of virtual and real wealth, there is the question of whether this would be a wise thing to do. Marginal costs of additional growth in rich countries, such as global warming, biodiversity loss and roadways choked with cars, now likely exceed marginal benefits of a little extra consumption. The end result is that promoting further economic growth makes us poorer, not richer.

  Herman E. Daly

  Wise, Country, Real

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• I have more important things to do anyway. I have a hangnail that needs my attention. (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Important, Needs, Attention

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Next, Walks, Conversion

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• No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - Toni

  Maya Banks

  Regret, Don't Regret, Right Thing

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• I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

  Susane Colasanti

  Real, Moving, People

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.163, Penguin

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• Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Down And

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies get so angry when they're kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it's the most common or garden thing to do. There's a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.

  Jaroslav Hašek

  Garden, People, Naked

  Jaroslav Hašek (1993). “The Good Soldier Svejk”, Everyman's Library

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• The best thing to do if you start thinking such things (falling in love) is to lie down and wait for it to pass. It always does.

  Anne Stuart

  Falling In Love, Lying, Love Is

  Anne Stuart (2008). “Fire and Ice”, p.104, MIRA

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• I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Doctors, Lifetime, Whole

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• That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Horse, Doors, Would Be

  Patrick O'Brian (2004). “The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels”, W. W. Norton & Company

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