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• The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Identity, Should, Feels

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.190, Macmillan

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• For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

  Fabrice Muamba

  Luck

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• For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

  Paul Engle

  Summer, Philosophy, Vacation

  Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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• Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Real, Mean, Roles

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• People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

  Steven Pinker

  Track, People, Doe

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• My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

  Nigel Rees

  Jobs, Mind, Wish

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• ¡Lástima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuándo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuándo es dignidad! What a shame that love has no dictionary in which to ascertain when pride is simply pride and when it's 'dignity'!

  Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

  Pride, Amor, Dignity

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• This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

  Kathleen Norris

  Helping

  Kathleen Norris (1999). “Amazing Grace”, p.110, Penguin

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• In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

  Daniel Handler

  Secret, Pockets, Knows

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• The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.

  Sarah Dessen

  Real, Real Life, Definitions

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.47, Penguin

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• The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Would Be, May

  1871 Through the Looking-Glass, ch.2,'The Garden of Live Flowers'.

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• In a partner I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. A person who is conscientious about the trail he leaves behind him. Love. Unconditional kindness. Basically, I'm looking for the qualities I revere in my friends.

  Renee Zellweger

  Kindness, Boys, Quality

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• Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Like Love, Want

  Robert A Heinlein (1966). “Moon Is Harsh Mistres”, Berkley

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• I was asking about lust, wasnʼt I? I was fairly certain of it. But isnʼt love supposed to come before lust? It does in the dictionary.

  Franny Billingsley

  Lust, Doe, Asking

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• Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.

  James Patterson

  Stupid, Writing, Bed

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• Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.

  Kristin Cashore

  Lying, Heart, Worry

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.91, Penguin

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• Did you just use juxtaposition in a sentence?" "Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all the time with art, ... That, and I know how to use a dictionary

  Richelle Mead

  Art, Juxtaposition, Use

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• Your mission statement says Galer Street is based on global "connectitude." (You people don't just think outside the box, you think outside the dictionary!)

  Maria Semple

  Thinking, People, Boxes

  Maria Semple (2012). “Where'd You Go, Bernadette”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Opportunity, People

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• I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.

  Janet Frame

  Cousin, Fall, Thinking

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• Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

  Nicole Krauss

  Feet, Pages, Empty

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Home, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Cat, Laughing

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• Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Heart, Mankind

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.65, BookBaby

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• Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

  Laurence Sterne

  Learning, Science, Grammar

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.339

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