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• There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Graves, Time To Sleep

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• I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sick, Faithful, Faults

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

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• The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

  Jean Webster

  World, Way, Kind

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.78, Jester House Publishing

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• Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

  Junot Diaz

  Self, Vortex, Oscars

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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• There are plenty of eyewitness accounts, just because you're so narrow-minded you need to have everything shoved under your nose before you-

  J. K. Rowling

  Needs, Noses, Eyewitnesses

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• Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

  Maya Angelou

  Cute, Smart, Swear To God

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.55, Modern Library

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• There's plenty more fish in the sea than Prince Jonathan," he told her softly. "And this particular fish loves you with all his crooked heart." -George to Alanna

  Tamora Pierce

  Romantic, Love You, Heart

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• Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

  Haruki Murakami

  Writing, People, Needs

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.63, Random House

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• Love dies in many different ways, and it's natural for the grass to seem greener on the other side. But it's not a competition; there's plenty of pain to go around.

  Rob Sheffield

  Pain, Competition, Different

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time”, Crown

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• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Fall, Animal, Journey

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.271, Random House

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to school for Career Day.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, School, Civilization

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series”, p.109, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Simple, Men, Political

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• Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Religious, People

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.534, e-artnow

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• We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our children.' But we have plenty of children to go around, God knows, and as with Doritos, we can always make more. The true scarcity we face is practicing adults, of people who know how marginal, how fragile, how finite their lives and their stories and their ambitions really are but who find value in this knowledge, even a sense of strange comfort, because they know their condition is universal, is shared.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Believe, Ambition

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• The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

  Fritz Leiber

  Fun, World, Rooms

  Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft (2004). “Fritz Leiber and H.P. Lovecraft: Writers of the Dark”, p.202, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

  Joan of Arc

  Clothes, Feminine, Refuse

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• What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the most disinterested and noble way, could find the necessary metaphors by which a radically changing culture could be explained to its inhabitants.

  Robert Hughes

  Art, Avant Garde, Culture

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.16, Vintage

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• We made plenty of mistakes, but we never tripped anybody to gain an advantage, or took illegal shortcuts when no judge was around. We have all jogged and panted it out the whole way.

  Wallace Stegner

  Mistake, Judging, Way

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.12, Modern Library

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• The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Contentment, Desire, World

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.3, Pan Macmillan

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• She bounded before me, and returned to my side, and was off again like a young greyhound; and, at first, I found plenty of entertaiment in listening to the larks singing far and near; and enjoying the sweet, warm sunshine; and watching her, my pet, and my delight, with her golden ringlets flying loose behind, and her bright cheek, as soft and pure in its bloom, as a wild rose, and her eyes radiant with cloudless pleasure. She was a happy creautre, and an angel in those those days. It is a pity she could not stay content.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Eye, Angel

  "Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Bronte, 1847.

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, Fighting, Imagine

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Nov 21, 2015

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• A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

  Leonard Cohen

  Gratitude, Morning, Couple

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.157, McClelland & Stewart

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