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• Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

  Julie Garwood

  Night, Wife, Bed

  Julie Garwood (2010). “Honor's Splendour”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Epic Poems, Ruts, Imagine

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “War and Peace: plus free audiobook”, p.1256, Wizio Publishing

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• You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Average, Years

  Ezra Pound (2016). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Dover Publications

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• Poppy was now almost well. She still slept more than usual, but when she wasn't sleeping she tromped around the doctor's house pulling spoons off the table and spilling cups of water and crumpling pages of books. That is, she was almost her old self.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Book, Sleep, Doctors

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.211, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?" He smiled at me. "Go to sleep." I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?" His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything.

  Patricia Briggs

  Fall, Sleep, Portland

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.35, Penguin

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• But there would be no confrontation the next day. And for Tommy Williams, there would be no school, either. Because the moment he walked through the gap in the stones to leave the circle, something quiet unexpected happened. Tommy, holding tightly on to his rock, took the step that divided the inside of the circle from the outside - and disappeared. The woods suddenly felt colder than usual. The darkness hung more heavily. The amber was gone - and now nothing would ever be the same.

  Liz Kessler

  School, Rocks, Circles

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• Through eons of living in a land so poor there was little to eat but oats, they had as usual converted necessity into a virtue, and insisted that they liked the stuff.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Oats, Land, Littles

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.796, Dell

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• Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Meg

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “The Wish List”, p.146, The O'Brien Press

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• I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Writing, Character, Men

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.541, Xist Publishing

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• There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

  Rachel Cohn

  Musical Life, May, Green

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• And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fashion, Eye, Self

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• Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

  George Carlin

  Children, Blow, Flawless

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• Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

  Francine Busby

  Aggravation, Broken, Like You

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• I can't say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Laughing, Alcohol, Ends

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.83

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• Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

  Oliver Sacks

  Memories, Musical, Brain

  Oliver Sacks (2011). “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another world here-... always we go to a new place...the people have a kind of gentleness that isn't usual on the mainland.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Country, Nice, People

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• The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Political Language, Progress

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• I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

  Mark Twain

  Morning, Prayer, Reading

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• In HEATHEN, R. Flowers Rivera remixes the classical and the Biblical, the usual and the typical until what we thought we knew of ourselves and others is new again. The mythic becomes particular; the particular becomes mythic in these fascinating poems of personalities and personas. Rivera’s work is rich in empathy and invention. Heathen is a book of psalms for the present day.

  Terrance Hayes

  Flower, Book, Biblical

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• Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation’s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Movement, Half

  "Obama Tries to Retract Statement to End Billions in Contracting Fraud" by Lloyd Chapman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2008.

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• When we step out of our normal world and leave behind us all the usual barriers and prejudices, we tend to become more adventurous.

  Paulo Coelho

  Prejudice, World, Steps

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• Doras II was a somewhat absentminded king, It is said, when Death came to summon him, Doras granted Death the usual formal audience and then dismissed him from his presence. Death was too embarrassed to return until many years later- Ka'a Orto'o, Gnomic Utterances

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Kings, Years, Utterance

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• Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Daughter, Men, Law

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.208, Penguin

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• He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.

  T. H. White

  Sea, Jumping, Talking

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.39, Penguin

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• "What are you thinking?" he asked curiously. I looked up into his deep gold eyes, became befuddled, and, as usual, blurted out the truth. "I'm trying to figure out what you are."

  Stephenie Meyer

  Eye, Thinking, Trying

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October 5, 2005.

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