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• Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

  Danielle Steel

  Writing, Mean, Survival

  Danielle Steel (2006). “The Long Road Home”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear. He had said the sky should always be blue for her.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Blue, Views, Sky

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• Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

  Ismail Kadaré

  Sadness, Fog, Finals

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• Don't expect me to be perfect. Despite all my lives, I'm still only human. I can't deliver perfection, and I'll only disappoint you. But I want you to know that you are the most important person to me. I'm trying to protect you. Sometimes I screw things up. I may even tell a white lie every now and then. But you have to give me the benefit of the doubt.

  Kirsten Miller

  Lying, White, Giving

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• I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hope, Voice, Water

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• I can make some calls. There is a guy. Dagfinn Heyerdahl. He used to be with Norse Heritage Foundation." Norse Heritage Foundation wasn't so much about heritage as it was about viking, in the most cliché sense of the world. They drank huge quantities of beer, they brawled, and they wore horned helmets despite all historical evidence to the contrary. "Used to be?" Curran asked. "They kicked him out for being drunk and violent." Curran blinked. "The Norse Heritage?" "Mhm." "Don't you have to be drunk and violent just to get in?" he asked. "Just how disorderly did he get?

  Ilona Andrews

  Beer, Drunk, Guy

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• And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Veins, Alive

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars over head, and the green fireflies glinting on the wooded shore. She carefully unfolded the stirring that she had so tightly packed away. It billowed out like a sail, and she laughed, despite herself, despite hunger and hard things ahead.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Stars, Children, Firefly

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.176, Feiwel & Friends

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• Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Want, Sometimes, Happens

  Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

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• Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

  Frederick Douglass

  Strong, Cheerful, Remains

  Frederick Douglass (1968). “The mind and heart of Frederick Douglass: excerpts from speeches of the great Negro orator”, Ty Crowell Co

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• People want to avoid the past. I suppose that's natural. When we tally up all we've said and done over the years, despite the wonderful memories, the regrets may be fewer but stand out more prominently, glowing coals that we can never quite extinguish, try though we might

  Jeffery Deaver

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jeffery Deaver (2011). “Edge: A Novel”, p.297, Simon and Schuster

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• A program of sterilizing women after their second or third child, despite the relatively greater difficulty of the operation than vasectomy, might be easier to implement than trying to sterilize men.

  John Holdren

  Children, Men, Trying

  "Why Are We Still Listening to Progressives About the Environment?" By Glenn Beck, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2009.

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• If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

  Paul Brunton

  Pain, Successful, Men

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

  Alva Myrdal

  Giving Up, Today, Messages

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Barry Commoner

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Temptation, Needs, Trials

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• Imagine God inside your computer, your phone, everyone else's computer. Imagine someone who almost is the Black Corporation, with all its power and riches and reach. And who, despite all this, seems pretty sane and beneficent by the standards of most gods. Oh, and who sometimes swears in Tibetan.

  Stephen Baxter

  Phones, Black, Corporations

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• Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Succeed, Miserable, Woman Suffrage

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• There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

  Fanny Burney

  Wicked, Age, Earth

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• The U.N. has been so disappointing to date on the whole Rwanda issue that despite the people they've sent through, and I have no doubt their competence, in the end, the decision is going to be made by other people and not by them.

  Tony Greig

  Issues, People, Decision

  "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.

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• The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  Camille Paglia

  Males, Genius, Athens

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.132, Yale University Press

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• I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.

  Michael Hutchence

  Together, Private Life, Manage

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to every individual who was affected by these powerful storms, ... Despite facing serious obstacles, the wireless industrys response to these natural disasters was nothing short of Herculean. We remain fully committed to aiding and assisting our subscribers in the affected regions in whatever way we can.

  Steve Largent

  Prayer, Powerful, Storm

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