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• It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive, and very therapeutic. Time passes very fast when I'm writing-really fast. I'm puzzling over something, and time just flies by. It's an exhilarating feeling. How bad can it be? It's sitting alone with fictional characters. You're escaping from the world in your own way and that's fine. Why not?

  Woody Allen

  Character, Writing, Exhilarating Feeling

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• Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, 'Why not?' and the other, 'Why bother?'

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Two

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• And your police are like our police in the Realm?' Blue said. 'They flog you if you do something wrong and cut off your hand if you’re caught stealing?' No, they don’t do that, Henry said uncertainly. Why not? It’s pretty silly not to, isn’t it?' Blue said.

  Herbie Brennan

  Silly, Cutting, Blue

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• But I don't give up; I forget why not.

  Dorothy Parker

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Forget

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to escape somewhere else, to get right inside the minds of people and animals who existed only on paper, so why not now? Because she was afraid. "Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

  Cornelia Funke

  Heart, Animal, Somewhere Else

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• I wondered if the Demon that whispered "Why not be free?" was Freedom itself.

  Inio Asano

  Demon, Ifs

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• Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was the grander French one: Why not kill yourself tonight? That the answers come to much the same thing in the end-easy does it; tomorrow may be a bit better than today; and, after all, you have to have a little faith in people-doesn't diminish the glamour that clings to the man who turned the question over and look at it, elegantly, upside down.

  Adam Gopnik

  Men, People, Littles

  "Fascinating history" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. April 9, 2012.

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• There's a new iPad out...People are going nuts for this thing...And, today, Mitt Romney said, 'It's a flat piece of white plastic. If you can love it, why not me?'

  Bill Maher

  Nuts, Ipads, White

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• If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.

  James Franco

  Long, Doe, Things I Love

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• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Humorous, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Biographies, Fiction, Economy

  1980 In the NewYork Times, 27 Jul.

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• I don't understand why James Bond has to be a man all the time. When Pierce Brosnan retires, why not one of us?

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Men, Ties, Retiring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.

  Nathan Fillion

  Nice, Mean, People

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• If men must die, why not in honorable pursuit of knowledge? Far be it that our ideas of manhood should be dwarfed to the size of a golden dollar.

  George W. Melville

  Men, Ideas, Dollars

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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Perception, Bombs

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• 'Why risk?' I responded. 'It should be, why not to risk?'

  Benjamin Carson

  Risk, Should

  "Take The Risk". Book by Ben Carson, 2008.

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• Many politicians in the West cling to the notion of a partnership with Russia. They want to include [Vladimir] Putin, make compromises and constantly negotiate new deals with him. But history has taught us that the longer we pursue appeasement and do nothing, the higher the price will be later on. Dictators don't ask "Why?" before they seize even more power. They ask: "Why not?"

  Garry Kasparov

  Russia, Taught Us, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I can't tell them what to do!" "Why not?" the other girl demanded. "Honestly, Clary, if you don't start utilizing a bit of your natural feminine superiority, I just don't know what I'll do with you.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Natural, Feminine

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.566, Simon and Schuster

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• ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ

  Richelle Mead

  Morning, Grateful, Fighting

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• I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more money and it doesn’t take any more time to write a bestseller than it does to write a book nobody buys.

  George Burns

  Funny, Book, Writing

  George Burns (1991). “The Most of George Burns”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Slumber party with Dracula, all things considerd why not?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Party, Slumber, All Things

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• Make the most of every moment. Get excited about every little thing. Why not? Why not have your wonderful moment of excited anticipation? Why not be happy NOW? This is my greatest challenge, but something I'm pouring my heart into: learning how to enjoy what I have, right here, right now. Every moment is precious and although sometimes I struggle to see it, I see it more and more every day.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Struggle, Heart, Challenges

  Bethenny Frankel (2011). “A Place of Yes: 10 Rules for Getting Everything You Want Out of Life”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to!

  Anne Frank

  Character, Fighting, Trying

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.165, GENERAL PRESS

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• I love brunch because it's breakfast and lunch why not.

  Lorena Garcia

  Lunch, Brunch, Breakfast

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• Why not imagine yourself successful?

  Maxwell Maltz

  Successful, Imagine

  Maxwell Maltz (2016). “Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life”, p.32, Penguin

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