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• The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Air, People

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.68, Scholastic Inc.

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• Half-drunk on well-creamed gas station coffee and the exhilarating loneliness of a freeway in nighttime.

  John Green

  Loneliness, Coffee, Drunk

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.22, Penguin

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• War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it. ~Izuru Kira

  Tite Kubo

  War, Dark, People

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• Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running the mind flies with the body; the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Thinking, Feet

  "To Invigorate Literary Mind, Start Moving Literary Feet". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 1999.

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• A girl who is thirteen-which is hard, and difficult, and beautiful, and painful, and exhilarating.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beautiful, Girl, Painful

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• Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

  Junot Diaz

  Simple, Saving, Waking

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• Now that mine is almost over, I can say that the one thing that struck me most about life is the capacity for change. One day you're a person and the next day they tell you you're a dog. At first it's hard to bear, but after a while you learn not to look at it as a loss. There's even a moment when it becomes exhilarating to realize just how little needs to stay the same for you to continue the effort they call, for lack of a better word, being human.

  Nicole Krauss

  Dog, Loss, Next Day

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.236, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

  John Burroughs

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Morning

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.242, Syracuse University Press

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• Through the dry phases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

  Ayn Rand

  Mind, Phases, Dry

  Ayn Rand (1957). “ATLAS SHRUGGED”

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• If this glorious birth to death hassle is the only hassle we are ever to have ..if our grand exhilarating fight of life is such a tragically short little scrap anyway,compared to the eons of rounds before and after-then why should one want to relinquish even a few precious seconds of it?

  Ken Kesey

  Fighting, Want, Littles

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• I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight Show.' There's truly nothing like it; it's intense and exhilarating, even though it looks so casual.

  Steven Wright

  Years, Three, Looks

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• Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life ... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.

  J. C. Watts

  Journey, Honor, Wonderful

  "Rep. J.C. Watts to Retire". www.foxnews.com. July 2, 2002.

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• Humanizing good people is kind of boring and I don't really see the value in it... humanizing tricky characters is exhilarating, and making audience films out of indie subjects excites me.

  Jason Reitman

  Character, People, Kind

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• I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science.

  Brian Greene

  Drama, Believe, Capture

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• To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

  Louis C. K.

  Doe, Great Things

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

  Howard Zinn

  Believe, Thinking, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

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• On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces are unique, and this is exhilarating, despite the increasingly plastic similarity of TV stars and actors.

  A. S. Byatt

  Stars, Unique, Thinking

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• I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into a row of seats and catapults you into the air from the top of the Stratosphere Tower - then plummets back down. I ride it over and over; it's exhilarating.

  Drew Barrymore

  Vegas, Air, Towers

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• It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't.

  Robin Williams

  Looks, Comedy, Metaphor

  "RD Interview: Robin Williams, in His Own Words". Interview with Andy Simmons, www.rd.com. 2006.

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• God allows and at times causes us to go through the kinds of circumstances that strip away all falsehood and leave us with our real selves. God's ultimate intent is not to leave us faithless, but to leave us faith-full. There are few things as exhilarating as going through the fire and finding that you had the resilience to make it through. All of us wonder at times whether we have what it takes. God wants to bring us to a place where we have no doubt of the work He has done within us.

  Erwin McManus

  Real, Fire, Self

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.210, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wine, Light, July

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.347, Yale University Press

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• In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Long, States

  "Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (pp. 119-120), 1963.

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• For too long, we’ve called unbelievers to “invite Jesus into your life.” Jesus doesn’t want to be in your life. Your life is a wreck. Jesus calls you into his life. And his life isn’t boring or purposeless or static. It’s wild and exhilarating and unpredictable.

  Russell D. Moore

  Life, Christian, Religious

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• What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny.

  Sven Birkerts

  Reading, Destiny, Ideas

  Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.101, Macmillan

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• You should never feel afraid to become a piece of art. It's exhilarating.

  Nicki Minaj

  Art, Pieces, Should

  "Nicki Minaj: Originality is exhilarating". Cover Media Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2014.

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