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• Your woman wears underwear out in public,” Sabin said. “Must be nice. How’d you manage that little miracle?” “Only the Deity knows.

  Gena Showalter

  Nice, Miracle, Underwear

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.104, HQN Books

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• I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

  Kevin Ayers

  Philosophy, Nice, Thinking

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• I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit," he tells me, flicking through it. "There's no such thing as Atticus Finch." I shrug. "It'd be nice if there was, though.

  Melina Marchetta

  Nice, Bullshit, Say Anything

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• Divers alarums and excursions', she read, uncertainly. 'That means lots of terrible happenings, said Magrat. 'You always put that in plays.' Alarums and what?', said Nanny Ogg, who hadn't been listening. Excursions', said Magrat patienly. Oh.' Nanny Ogg brightened a bit. 'The seaside would be nice,' she said. Oh do shut up, Gytha,' said Granny Weatherwax. 'They're not for you. They're only for divers, like it says. Probably so they can recover from all them alarums.

  Terry Pratchett

  Nice, Mean, Play

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• We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

  Shannon Hale

  Real, Nice, Hands

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• Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Real, Nice

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• In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Nice, Mean, Broken

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• Now we'd known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching his shins, and his stomach was against my ribs. He said, "I don't think it's end of world to be my girlfriend." I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girlfriend, Nice, Thinking

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• She'd always had such contempt for mundanes, the way all Shadowhunters did--she'd believed that they were soft, stupid, sheeplike in their complacency. Now she wondered if all that hatred didn't just stem from the fact that she was jealous. It must be nice not worrying that every time one of your family members walked out the door, they'd never come back.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Stupid, Jealous

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1097, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed.

  Lawrence Welk

  Nice, Successful, Pitfalls

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.

  Tom Holt

  Nice, Sick, Support

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• We know it's all just daydreaming. In all likelihood, no one in this forest'll ever get a javelin, and I'll never see my mother's kingdom again, let alone be hailed by crowds as the jewel of Kildenree. Maybe it's vain to wish for it. But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth. Right Finn?

  Shannon Hale

  Mother, Real, Nice

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.280, A&C Black

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• I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

  Johnny Vegas

  Nice, Thinking, Las Vegas

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• I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

  Chris Ware

  Respect, Nice, Independent

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. December 31, 2003.

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• You'll see. She can be nice sometimes.

  P. C. Cast

  Nice, Sometimes

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.632, Macmillan

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• Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.

  Carrie Fisher

  Nice, Mean, Thinking

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Music, Song, Nice

  Chuck Klosterman (2006). “Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that to you I realize how self-contradictory that sounds. I know I shall have many sleepless nights about this. What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him? Deep and hard questions, little 6655321.

  Anthony Burgess

  Nice, Night, Men

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• One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else.

  Diane Setterfield

  Nice, Needs, Talent

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Beautiful, Girl, Nice

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

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• However revolutionary it may be, the Internet still hasn't altered the basic law of human communication: Being nice to your interlocutors is a good way to start any negotiations, particularly, when being hostile is an open invitation for a cyber-fight.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Nice, Communication, Fighting

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• I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!

  John Waters

  Attitude, Nice, Stupid

  John Waters (2007). “Crackpot: The Obsessions of”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Nice, Evil, Might

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2006). “Danse Macabre: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.357, Penguin

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• I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nice, Would Be, Mouths

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dog, Lying

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