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• There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.

  Homer Hickam

  Men, Two, Want

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.160, Dell

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• I don't know. I really don't. While I was in the living room, I kept asking myself what I really wanted in life." She squeezed his hand. "And do you know what the answer was? The answer was that I wanted two things. First, I want you. I want us. I love you and I always have.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love You, Hands, Two

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• I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked: it was a wise man, and it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wise, Men, Two

  The Moon and Sixpence ch. 2 (1919)

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• In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

  Daniel Quinn

  Men, Two, Forever

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• If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Crazy, Feel Better, Two

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• In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.

  Margaret George

  Two, Sense Of Humor, Flattery

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• I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love - plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing - turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would never miss. Unrequited love was deciding to be useless, and I could never abide uselessness. Neither could James. He understood. In such situations, you do one of two things - you either walk away and deny yourself, or you do sneaky things to get what you need. You attend weddings, you go for walks. You say, yes. Yes, you're my best friend, too.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Girl, Unrequited Love, Boys

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• There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

  Charles Bukowski

  Two, Littles, Too Much

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, p.202, City Lights Books

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• There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Humility, Men, Two

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23”, p.92, VM eBooks

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• Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Important, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

  Matthew Pearl

  Two, Remember, Cry

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• A world without right or wrong was a world that did not want itself, anything other than itself, or anything not those two things, but that still wanted something. A world without right or wrong invited you over, complained about you, and gave you cookies. Don't leave, it said, and gave you a vegan cookie. It avoided eye contact, but touched your knee sometimes. It was the world without right or wrong. It didn't have any meaning. It just wanted a little meaning.

  Tao Lin

  Eye, Two, Cookies

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• So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

  Margaret George

  Relationship, Loss, Night

  Margaret George (2011). “The Memoirs of Cleopatra”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Laughter, Two, Prejudice

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• I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it is the same thing whatever shape our souls have taken on this journey. Love is love. Is love.

  Clive Barker

  Taken, Journey, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Oct 20, 2012

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• The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Anxiety, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house, is sold and lost, and the books I gathered there lost, or sold- but more books bought, and in another place, board by board and stone by stone, like a house, a true life built, and all because I was steadfast about one or two things: loving foxes, and poems, the blank piece of paper, and my own energy- and mostly the shimmering shoulders of the world that shrug carelessly over the fate of any individual that they may, the better, keep the Niles and Amazons flowing.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Book, Fate

  Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.17, Penguin

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• Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

  Joseph Heller

  Names, Two, Being Thankful

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Lying, Two, Laughing

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• When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.

  O.R. Melling

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  O.R. Melling (2012). “The Chronicles of Faerie (Book 2): The Summer King”, Amulet Books

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• In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Loving Life, Two, Achievement

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama II”, p.345, RosettaBooks

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• True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

  John Calvin

  Self, Two, Knowledge Of God

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• It became clear when I got in my car that Persians are only really good for two things. Oil and hummus.

  Chelsea Handler

  Two, Oil, Car

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Opposites, Two, Perfect

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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• Two things that matter to me. Emotional resonance and rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Emotional, Two, Matter

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