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• You might be a redneck if your dogs name is Miller Light

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Dog, Redneck, Light

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• Have you ever noticed that when your mind is awakened or drawn to someone new, that person's name suddenly pops up everywhere you go? My friend Sophie calls it coincidence, and Mr. Simpless, my parson friend, calls it Grace. He thinks that if one cares deeply about someone or something new one throws a kind of energy out into the world, and "fruitfulness" is drawn in.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Thinking, Grace, Mind

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.116, Dial Press

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• Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

  Eugene Ionesco

  Crime, Submission, Committed

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• Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?

  Ray Bradbury

  Team, Reading, Home

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• No doubt very few people understand the purely subjective nature of the phenomenon that we call love, or how it creates, so to speak, a supplementary person, distinct from the person whom the world knows by the same name, a person most of whose constituent elements are derived from ourselves.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Doubt, Elements

  Marcel Proust (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)”, p.808, Delphi Classics

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• Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating, by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer's make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road he wants to go. I would only warn him to look to his zest, see to his gusto.

  Ray Bradbury

  Creating, Zest, People

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• Saeed quickly found employment at a Banana Republic, where he would sell to urban sophisticates the black turtleneck of the season, in a shop whose name was synonymous with colonial exploitation and the rapacious ruin of the third world.

  Kiran Desai

  Black, Employment, World

  Kiran Desai (2007). “The Inheritance of Loss”, p.112, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Why come to Trude? I asked myself. And I already wanted to leave. You cand resume your flight whereever you like," they say to me, "but you will arive at another Trude, absolutely the same, detail by detail. The world is covered by a sole Trude which does not begin and does not end. Only the names of the airport changes.

  Italo Calvino

  Airports, Details, Doe

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• A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Baby, Cheer, Children

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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• In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

  Arina Tanemura

  Dark, Demon, Born

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• Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Everyday, Noble

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• If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Needs, Letters

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• I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Believe, Book, Men

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

  Diane Setterfield

  Needs, Call Me, Absent

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Faith, Letters

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.170, University of Iowa Press

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• Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cowardice, Basil, Trade

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 1 (1891)

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• There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

  Charles Dickens

  Passion, Pride, Ill Will

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Christmas Books”, p.46, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Country, Together, Pieces

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.241, Macmillan

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• You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

  Jose Saramago

  Given, Knows

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• If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Fear, Understanding, May

  Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”

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• Every name is real. That's the nature of names.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Real, Stargirl

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.27, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Everybody should customize their names.

  Charles Baxter

  Should

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.153, Vintage

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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Bleeding, Lips

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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Pride, Self

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• Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them. Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first. A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace. A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God."" Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep." I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb.

  Patricia Briggs

  Dog, Voice, Sheep

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.129, Penguin

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