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• I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Distance, People, Giving

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

  Keri Hulme

  Boys, Fire, Sea

  Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.94, LSU Press

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• Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Moving, Oil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.11, Macmillan

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• When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes. Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?" I'm not taking them off." Why not?" I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.

  Jen Lancaster

  Mom, Jobs, Makeup

  Jen Lancaster (2006). “Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office”, p.208, Penguin

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• Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the spleen, heart, kidneys. And they went about their private activities. So why not the brain?

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, Brain, Purpose

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man Who Japed”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Firsts, Diploma

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.172, Broadway Books

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• Why not wear a scar of Motherhood? Better than a tattoo or a mark of Honor. Let the world know what you've achieved.

  Richelle Mead

  Tattoo, Motherhood, Honor

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.65, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.

  Ben Stein

  Mean, Dust, Devil

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• I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.

  Joanne Greenberg

  Practice, Waiting, Doe

  Joanne Greenberg (2009). “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• The theory is that if you spill all your secrets, you'll have no desire to lie about anything, ever again. Like the worst about you is already in the open, so why not just be honest?

  Veronica Roth

  Lying, Secret, Desire

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• Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark?

  Steven Spielberg

  Funny, Movie, Inspiring

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• God is all over the place. And even if He isn't, if it makes me feel good, why not?

  Grace Slick

  Feel Good, Feels, Ifs

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• Everyone in this world is somehow connected. So why not just be nice to everybody.

  Richard Simmons

  Travel, Nice, World

  Twitter post from Dec 21, 2014

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• And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!

  William Shakespeare

  Self, Banishment, Torment

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Two gentlemen of Verona. Comedy of errors. Love's labour's lost”, p.75

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• I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.

  Jill Scott

  Reaching, This Life, Happens

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• I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.

  Tessa Dare

  Challenges, Pistols, Way

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• We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Change, Laughing, Bird

  Sri Swami Satchidananda (1984). “Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

  Mason Cooley

  Interesting, Interesting Life, Slogans

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• How?" I had seen it with my own eyes, but I still didn't believe it. Then something struck me. "Take off your shirt!" "I'm not that kind of guy!" He frowned thoughtfully. "On second thought, why not?" I blushed angrily and looked at Raquel. "What is he? I don't see anything!" "He's not 'anything'.Just a talented boy." "Then how did he make a door? How did he get through the Paths?" "Wait,so am I allowed to put my shirt back on? Or did you want me to remove my pants,too?" Lend and I joined forces in a dark glare. "Only if you want me to vomit," I snapped.

  Kiersten White

  Believe, Eye, Dark

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• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  Ray Bradbury

  Weed, Jobs, Crazy

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• "Stupid English."
  "English isn't stupid," I say.
  "Well, my English teacher is." He makes a face. "Mr. Franklin assigned an essay about our favorite subject, and I wanted to write about lunch, but he won't let me."
  "Why not?"
  "He says lunch isn't a subject."
  I glance at him. "It isn't."
  "Well," Jacob says, "it's not a predicate, either. Shouldn't he know that?"

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Stupid, Writing

  "House Rules". Book by Jodi Picoult, March 2, 2010.

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• You're screening your calls?" "Why not? It saves me from conversations with idiots." "Is that an insult?" His voice dropped into a deep growl. "You're not an idiot," I told him. "You're just a deadly psychopath with a god complex.(...)

  Ilona Andrews

  Voice, Idiot, Insult

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.102, Penguin

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• I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

  Mattie Stepanek

  Sibling, Thinking, Hard Life

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• Why vampires? You write centuries-long family sagas—why not write historical epics without any hint of the supernatural?"   "Well, that would be boring, wouldn't it?"   "Yeah, God only knows what Tolstoy was thinking.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Writing, Epic, Thinking

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty and the Midnight Hour”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.

  George Carlin

  Girl, Dream, Grief

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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