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• We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.

  Lisa Lutz

  Husband, Ex Boyfriend, Acceptance

  Lisa Lutz (2010). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Small Numbers, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• my mind is a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal tools in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex -ecute strides of cobalt nevertheless i feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming something a little different, in fact myself hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings

  e. e. cummings

  Taste And Smell, Sight, Agony

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• He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?

  John Green

  Jesus, Kids, Gun

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.151, A&C Black

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• "What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

  Joseph Heller

  Mean, Sides, Tone

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• Perhaps we are on an insula ex machina, an artificial place not in the real world at all -- a backdrop for the stories we must tell.

  Kate Atkinson

  Real, Stories, World

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.97, Macmillan

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• It had come about ex­act­ly in the way things hap­pened in books.

  Agatha Christie

  Book, Way

  Agatha Christie (1986). “5 Complete Novels of Murder and Detection”, Wings

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• me: just don't ask about his forty-three ex-boyfriends, okay? or ask him about why he's carrying around an axe. mom:... me: i'm kidding about the axe part.

  David Levithan

  Mom, Ex Boyfriend, Three

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.125, Penguin

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• She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that he’d put her life in order. What she felt for Bram was messy, honest, and soul-deep. He felt like…part of her, the best and the worst. Like someone she wanted to struggle through life with; share triumphs and catastrophes; share holidays, birthdays, every days

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Husband, Struggle, Holiday

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• The word "education" comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

  Muriel Spark

  Mean, Roots, Soul

  Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Morning, Past

  Walker Percy (2011). “Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.

  Lucio Russo

  Children, Attitude, Past

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• There's really no such thing as an 'ex-cop' or a cop who's 'off-duty' or 'retired.' Once trained, once indoctrinated, a cop is always alert, assessing reality in terms of its potential for illegal acts.

  Sue Grafton

  Reality, Law Enforcement, Cop

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"H" is for Homicide”, p.83, Macmillan

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• One of the benefits of being divorced is that you no longer need to listen to your ex's assessment of the appropriateness of your actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Assessment, Needs

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• Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.

  David Letterman

  Iowa, Wife, Week

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• You should not propose marriage until you have resolved your feelings about your ex.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Feelings, Should

  "Cheapskate, turkey for the holidays". "Ask Amy" with Amy Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. December 29, 2012.

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• In everything the middle course is best: all things in excess bring trouble to men.
  [Lat., Modus omnibus in rebus, soror, optimum est habitu;
  Nimia omnia nimium exhibent negotium hominibus ex se.]

  Plautus

  Men, Excess, Trouble

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• My second ex-wife was really kind of like a ship passing in the night. Only she turned out to be the Exxon Valdez.

  James Woods

  Night, Wife, Love And Marriage

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• Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m looking for a fat, cross-eyed hunchback,' he explains, stifling a giggle. 'A prosthetic hump would do.' His delight evaporates when asked about his three grandchildren. 'Am I a doting grandfather?' He pauses. 'I’m a … something grandfather, yes.' The fact that De Bono remains unperturbed by this lack betrays an emotionally austere childhood, and his passions for play, toys, and bad jokes tell of the same deprivation. 

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Passion, Grandchildren, Play

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• I don't like when performers rag on their ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend in absentia. If they're not there, it just feels rude... I'm never going to say anything personal about myself on stage. That's my new goal.

  David Rees

  Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend, Goal

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.

  David Bayles

  Art, Irritation, Giving

  David Bayles, Ted Orland (2001). “Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking”, p.14, Image Continuum Press

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• Americans are not only a less homogenous population than we were when we were 3 million ex-colonists, but we're less educated. On top of that, we have constant misinformation and manipulation by media.

  Gore Vidal

  Media, Manipulation, Population

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• Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  New York, Cities, Fantastic

  "Ex Machina : An Interview With Brian K. Vaughan". Interview with Bryan Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 30, 2010.

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• Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

  Bill Gross

  Brilliant, Mutual Fund, Fidelity

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• All my life there's always been an ex-wife or a girlfriend.

  Ronnie Wood

  Girlfriend, Wife, Ex Wife

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