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• It's so easy for someone else to say, 'Don't worry. Everything's going to be all right.' Why not say it? It doesn't cost anything. It doesn't mean anything. No one will hold you to it if you're wrong.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mean, Worry, Cost

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.173, Hachette UK

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• If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Dancing, Laughing

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• Someone has to write all those stories: why not me?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Stories

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• She threw up her hands. "All right. Why not?" Why not?" Sure." His arms fell to his sides. "That's it? I pour my heart out. I love you so much I've got freakin' tears in my eyes. And all I get in return is 'Why not'?" What did you expect? Am I supposed to fall all over you just because you've finally come to your senses?" Would it be too much to ask?"...He'd begun to glare at her again, his eyes growing stormier by the minute."When do you think you might be ready? To fall all over me, that is.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Fall, Love You, Heart

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• You took the best, so why not take the rest?

  James A. Baldwin

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• All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.

  Kim Edwards

  Eye, Sunny Afternoon, East

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.76, Penguin

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• Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

  David Foster Wallace

  Infinite Jest, Reasoning, Ifs

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• Let's go." "We can't." "Why not?" "We're waiting for Godot.

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting, Waiting For Godot, Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.438, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine In one another's being mingle— Why not I with thine? See the mountains kiss high heaven, And the waves clasp one another; No sister-flower would be forgiven If it disdain'd its brother; And the sunlight clasps the earth, And the moonbeams kiss the sea— What are all these kissings worth, If thou kiss not me?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Wedding, Sweet, Brother

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1877). “Favorite Poems”, p.45

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• If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

  Freddie Mercury

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

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• As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

  Gregory Maguire

  Long, People, Benefits

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• Do I think I'm a national treasure? I don't see why not? I don't see why I shouldn't be. I'm a good lad, really.

  Robbie Williams

  Thinking, Treasure, Lad

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• I want to be a cheerleader for women who have never even considered running for office or being involved in a campaign, but who in the quietness of their hearts might think, 'Why not me?'

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Cheerleading, Heart

  "Gabrielle Bernstein Interviews Marianne Williamson: Sister Giant". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Writing, Secret

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

  Alber Elbaz

  Hate, Down And, Upside Down

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• Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Life, Girl

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• Son, you can't go around painting yourself black, you hear?" "Why not, Papa?" "Because they'll take you away." "Why?" "Because you shouldn't want to be like black people or Jewish people or anyone who is...not us." "Who are Jewish people?" "You know my oldest customer, Mr. Kaufmann? Where we bought your shoes?" "Yes." "Well, he's Jewish." "I didn't know that. Do you have to pay to be Jewish? Do you need a license?" ..... "...you've got beautiful blond hair and big safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?

  Markus Zusak

  Beautiful, Eye, Son

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• The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness... The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy. The dear, stupid body is easily satisfied as a spaniel. And, incredibly, the simple spaniel can lure the brawling mind to its dish. It is everlastingly funny that the proud, metaphysically ambitious mind will hush if you give it an egg.

  Annie Dillard

  Stupid, Simple, Eggs

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• A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

  Mark Steyn

  Civilization, Islam, Dying

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.28, Regnery Publishing

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• Let us, rather, gather facts, all the facts, regardless of aesthetic appeal or theoretical social worth, and spread those facts before us not as the soothsayer spreads the innards of a turkey but as a newspaper spreads its columns. Let us be journalists, then. And like all good journalists, we shall present our facts in an order that will satisfy the famous five W's: wow, whoopee, wahoo, why-not and whew.

  Tom Robbins

  Order, Turkeys, Wow

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.139, Bantam

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• We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?

  Natalie Angier

  Albums, Looks, Moments

  Natalie Angier (2009). “The Canon: The Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.9, Faber & Faber

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• I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society of suburbia: too close to people I know I must sever my self from them, or be a part of their world: this half and half compromise is intolerable.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Self, People

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.289, Anchor

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• It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

  George Orwell

  Beautiful, Body, Fifty

  George Orwell (1982). “Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four: Text, Sources, Criticism”, Harcourt

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• Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too, and she succeeded to some extent. Why not celebrate what you had rather than spend your time mourning its passing? There could be joy in things that ended.

  Ann Brashares

  Beautiful, Mourning, Joy

  Ann Brashares (2007). “Summers of the Sisterhood”, Corgi Childrens

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• The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark--why not kill myself? Missed the bus--better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie--maybe I shouldn't kill myself.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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