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• Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

  Tom Holt

  Stupid, Elephants, Worry

  Tom Holt (2012). “Djinn Rummy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Interest is never enough. If it doesn't haunt you, you'll never write it well. What haunts and obsesses you may, with luck and labour, interest your readers. What merely interests you is sure to bore them.

  Steven Heighton

  Writing, Luck, May

  "Workbook: Memos and Dispatches On Writing". Book by Steven Heighton, 2011.

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• The traditional gender ideals of the strong-silent man who plays his cards close to his chest and the mysterious woman who disguises her feelings with coyness go so far as to make a virtue of being unavailable and secretive. But wholehearted intimacy can develop only where two people are equally forthcoming and self-revelatory. To take the risk of loving, we must become vulnerable enough to test the radical proposition that knowledge of another and self-revelation will ultimately increase rather than decrease love. It is an awe-ful risk.

  Sam Keen

  Strong, Men, Two

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• Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

  J. A. Jance

  Mother, Children, Crazy

  J. A. Jance (2009). “Outlaw Mountain: A Joanna Brady Mystery”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• We're left with so little to go on. Only the present is full enough to seem complete, and even that is an optical illusion. The moment is bleeding off the page. We live on the precipice of our perceptions. At the edge of every living instant, the world shears away like a cliff of ice into the sea of what is forgotten.

  Ivan Vladislavic

  Ice, Sea, Perception

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• I think maybe we die every day. Maybe we're born new each dawn, a little changed, a little further on our own road. When enough days stand between you and the person you were, you're strangers. Maybe that's what growing up is. Maybe I have grown up.

  Mark Lawrence

  Growing Up, Thinking, Dawn

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.216, Penguin

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• Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

  Will Thomas

  Doe, Answers, Rooms

  Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not certain that the BBC can claim to be making a wide enough range of distinctive programmes to make the case convincingly.

  Jonathan Dimbleby

  Range, Claims, Cases

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• You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.

  Sierra Boggess

  Unbelievable

  Twitter post from Jul 15, 2016

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• It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.

  Floyd Abrams

  Rights, People, Not Good Enough

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. une 15, 2005.

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• Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

  Jean Giono

  Men, Valleys, Littles

  Jean Giono (2013). “Blue Boy”, p.151, Read Books Ltd

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• If production does not increase in Iraq in an exponential way between now and 2015, we have a very big problem, even if Saudi Arabia meets its obligations. The figures are very simple, you do not need to be an expert. It is enough to know how to do a subtraction. China will grow very quickly, India also, and even Saudi Arabia projections of the 3 Mb/day will not be enough to meet the rise of Chinese demand.

  Fatih Birol

  Simple, Iraq, Chinese

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• The silken rush of woodland waters and the scoured shapes of the desert - these and countless other treasures we owe to those farsighted enough to have preserved the public lands that make up our inheritance.

  T. H. Watkins

  Nature, Land, Water

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• Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not plagiarized, mind you, but stolen bits of ideas and stylistic influences. If you steal widely enough, after all, your models are inevitably changed and the result is in the end completely yours. Kleon cites André Gide to this point, in a quotation I love: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything must be said again.

  Austin Kleon

  Art, Ideas, People

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• This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.

  Christopher Cokinos

  Self, Long, Return

  Christopher Cokinos (2013). “Bodies, of the Holocene”, p.16, Truman State University Press

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• You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.

  Sara Genn

  Needs, Paint, Assurance

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• No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

  Grant Cardone

  Inspirational, Goal, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2017

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• I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.

  Niall Horan

  Thinking, Flying, Pigeons

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• The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.

  Brian Francis

  Strong, War, Blood

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• I think sometimes we can use spirituality as a vehicle to go closer to the things that frighten us and sometimes we can use it as a shield. I'm guilty of it too. I think spiritual words can do one or the other. Because when I hear people say, in a religion setting, 'Glory,' 'Praise the Lord,' 'Hallelujah,' but it doesn't mean anything, those are actually words that distance us from God, ironically enough.

  Jon Foreman

  Spiritual, Distance, Mean

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• Sometimes it can be really hard in our fast paced society to slow ourselves down enough to begin to listen to God's voice. The dilemma exists in my position as well. To be a follower of Christ is to emulate Him. When He went off alone into the desert to pray, He was teaching a valuable lesson.

  Jon Foreman

  Teaching, Voice, Desert

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• People put off writing thinking they don't have the time or enough of an opinion to matter and that is crap. You are the only one standing in your own way, so get started.

  C.C. Chapman

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• We read not only because we cannot know enough people, but because friendship is so vulnerable, so likely to diminish or disappear, overcome by space, time, imperfect sympathies, and all the sorrows of familial and passional life.

  Harold Bloom

  Space, People, Sorrow

  Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

  Billy Sunday

  Mother, Believe, Godly

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

  Billy Sunday

  Men, Joy, Religion

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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