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• I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, “Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

  Suzanne Collins

  Witty, Thinking, Trying

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.82, Scholastic Inc.

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• I was on one of my fruitarian diets" Steve Jobs recalled "I had just comeback from the apple farm. It sounded fun, spirited, and not intimidating. Apple took the edge of the word 'computer', plus it would get us a head of Atari in the phone book. He told Wozniak if a better name did not hit them by the next afternoon, they would just stick with apple and they did.  1 Apr 1976 

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Fun, Book

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• Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

  Rachel Caine

  Crush, Mean, Wit

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• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

  Iain Sinclair

  Travel, Journey, Doubt

  Iain Sinclair (2004). “Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath: a narrative in twelve tales”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

  Wen Jiabao

  Self Confidence, Important, Gold

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• Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Insult To Injury, Age, Aging

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• For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Healing, Writing, Realization

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• A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

  Louis Nizer

  Clever, Insult, Thousand

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• The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise.

  Garet Garrett

  Peace, War, Blow

  Garet Garrett (1965). “The people's pottage”, Caxton Printers

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• I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

  Johnny Bench

  Sports, Thinking, Muscles

  "The Most Utterly Comprehensive List Of Exemplary Poeticisms — Be they great, inadvertent, or unsound — As Uttered by our most Esteemed Exemplars And Guardians of Popular Culture". Article by John Reed, logger.believermag.com. November 26, 2014.

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• Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Insult, Sexuality, Misfortunes

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.

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• Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Love, Voice, Giving

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• Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Balance, Insult, Daily Life

  Raoul Vaneigem, Donald Nicholson-Smith (2012). “The Revolution of Everyday Life”, p.15, PM Press

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• No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

  Irwin Shaw

  Sorry, Writing, Feelings

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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• Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Energy, Source

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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• The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

  Edouard Manet

  Spring, Broken, People

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• When I first made the comeback it was more about getting fit and hopefully inspiring others to lead a better life... for me to achieve what I have achieved over the last two years has been a dream come true.

  Geoff Huegill

  Sports, Dream, Years

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• The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

  Drake

  Back In The Day, Opportunist, Bandwagon

  Song: Over My Dead Body, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Love, Book, Imagination

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Nothing would make me happier if Peter Falk would finally win his Oscar for this. Not just as the writer but as a fan and a friend. It would be so great

  Paul Reiser

  Winning, Fans, Would Be

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• Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore officially introduced his history-making running mate today, Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut....In their first joint appearance they gave a preview of the Gore-Lieberman fight-back, comeback strategy. Their message: They represent the future, not the past, and they are the ticket of high moral standards most in tune with real mainstream America.

  Dan Rather

  Running, Real, Fighting

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• A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint

  Edward James Olmos

  Simple, Giving, Trying

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• I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.

  Mike Piazza

  Sports, Athlete, Player

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• I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

  Robert Englund

  Firsts

  "The Arrow interviews Robert Englund". Interview, www.joblo.com. July 2, 2003.

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