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• I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong.” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers.” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.

  Janet Evanovich

  Tree, Drug, Cows

  Janet Evanovich (1999). “Three To Get Deadly: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Thinking, Voice, Air

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• As women glide from their twenties to thirties, Shazzer argues, the balance of power subtly shifts. Even the most outrageous minxes lose their nerve, wrestling with the first twinges of existential angst: fears of dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by an Alsatian.

  Helen Fielding

  Wrestling, Dying Alone, Balance

  Helen Fielding (2013). “The Bridget Jones Omnibus: The Singleton Years: Bridget Jones's Diary & The Edge of Reason”, p.17, Pan Macmillan

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• It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

  Milan Kundera

  Maturity, Mind, Favors

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• Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.

  Bill Watterson

  Years, Six Year Olds, Six

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• Pooh hater,' I muttered under my breath. 'Winnie-the-Pooh was not a koala--why am I even arguing about this with you?

  Rob Thurman

  Koalas, Breaths

  Rob Thurman (2011). “Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.100, Penguin

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• I want you cool and regal, earthy and impertinent, spoiling for a fight and abashed at your own temper. I want you flushed with exertion and rosy with sleep. I want you teasing and provocative, somber and thoughtful. I want every emotion, every mood, every year in a lifetime to come. I want you beside me, to encourage and argue with me, to help me and let me help you. I want to be your champion and lover, your mentor and student.

  Connie Brockway

  Love, Sleep, Fighting

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• If these were indications of new love, as Sergei expected they were, then he was not surprised. All that scraping and arguing, the teasing and playful antagonism, could only mean on thing. It was a sure sign of attraction.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Mean, Tease, Antagonism

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• Don't worry," I repiled, "I usually don't argue with the voices.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Voice, Worry

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• You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Matter, Lasts, Last Words

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• You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

  Nevil Shute

  Stupid, Stupidity, Accepting

  Nevil Shute (1951). “Round the bend”

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• Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

  David Levithan

  Two, People, Stubborn

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

  Julie Orringer

  Responsibility, Men, Dust

  FaceBook post by Julie Orringer from Jan 17, 2017

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• From the moment I laid eyes on you I couldn't stop looking at you. From the moment we talked I couldn't stop arguing with you. From the moment we kissed I couldn't stop kissing you. And from the moment we shared our hopes, fears and insecurities I couldn't stop loving you.

  Simone Elkeles

  Eye, Kissing, Loving You

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “How to Ruin My Teenage Life”, p.239, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• Come on, baby.” Paris combed his fingers through her hair. “Look past my terrible personality and hideous looks and throw me a bone. Teach me how to woo you properly.” She snorted. “I’d argue the hideous looks part.” “But not the terrible personality? Ouch. That hurts, baby.

  Gena Showalter

  Baby, Hurt, Past

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Darkest Seduction”, p.355, HQN Books

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• Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Crazy, Differences

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• In your hands The dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive. Who would argue otherwise? But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that. What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines? Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping. What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks? And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take years Before, finally, you hear them?

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Rocks, Hands

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• Why do I feel like I can't trust you anymore?' I wanted him to lash out. I wanted him to fight, to protest, to argue- to do anything but look deeper into my eyes and say, 'because the Gallagher Academy doesn't admit fools

  Ally Carter

  Eye, Fighting, Looks

  Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.141, Hachette UK

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• When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Writing, Tired

  Interview with Alisa McCune, www.sfsite.com. July 2004.

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• The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no? ... Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

  Christopher Paolini

  Jobs, Wall, Tired

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1435, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• My father could argue two sides of a Möbius Strip.

  Dan Brown

  Father, Two Sides, Two

  "Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel".

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• Soon madness has worn you down. It’s easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you’re worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Believe, Laughing, Bipolar

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• The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.

  Carl Sagan

  Jesus, Children, Names

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.209, Ballantine Books

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• Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Don't argue or answer rationally. Let us die, and dying, reply.

  Rumi

  Dying, Answers, Pay

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• I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands.

  Jim Thompson

  Nice, Hair, Hands

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