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• Two years ago, I was a twenty-nine year old secretary. Now I am a thirty-one year old writer. I get paid very well to sit around in my pajamas and type on my ridiculously fancy iMac, unless I'd rather take a nap. Feel free to hate me -- I certainly would.

  Julie Powell

  Hate, Naps, Years

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• Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even binds our five disparate senses. James Geary's fascinating and utterly readable I is an Other brings the news on metaphor from literature and economics, from neuroscience and politics, illuminating topics from consumer behavior to autism spectrum disorders to the evolution of language. As a writer, as a teacher, and as someone just plain fascinated by how our minds work, I've been waiting years for exactly this book.

  James Richardson

  Teacher, Book, New Experiences

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• Deep down inside we know that the best gifts don't come from catalogs or shopping malls. They don't come in brightly-colored packages or fancy envelopes and they're not sitting under a tree somewhere... The best gifts come from the heart. They come when we look at each other, REALLY look at each other and say 'You mean a lot to me' or 'I'm so glad you're a part of my life.' A gift like that will never go out of style or be forgotten or be returned for a different size. A gift like that can change the world.

  Ron Atchison

  Mean, Heart, Shopping

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• Take off all the masks, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use, and be the most honest person you can be with yourself. Then, whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Love You, Player

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• Just because someone has fancy sneakers doesn't mean they can run faster.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Inspirational, Running, Mean

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• We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

  Annie Dillard

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Holy the Firm”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

  Oscar Wilde

  Air, Ideas, Paradox

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• I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies.

  Brian Molko

  Girlfriend, Wind, People

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• Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.

  Ray Bradbury

  Phones, Next Day, People

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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• The complaint, therefore, that all topicks are preoccupied, is nothing more than the murmur of ignorance or idleness, by which some discourage others, and some themselves; the mutability of mankind will always furnish writers with new images, and the luxuriance of fancy may always embellish them with new decorations.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Writing, May

  Samuel Johnson (2003). “Selected Essays”, p.525, Penguin UK

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• I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.

  William Allen White

  Life, Morning, Eye

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• A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies, their illusions, their flower world, the dreams they live in.

  Christina Stead

  Girl, Dream, Women

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• Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.

  Jane Porter

  Art, Grief, Color

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.136

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• ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Practice, Long, Simplicity

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.15, 谷月社

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• Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who take it seriously. Adultery? Phooey! You should never subjugate yourself to another nor seek the subjugation of someone else to yourself. If you follow that Crispian principle you will be able to say Phooey, too, instead of reaching for your gun when you fancy yourself betrayed.

  Quentin Crisp

  Gun, Games, Principles

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• To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

  Robert Breault

  Happiness, Tails, Chosen

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• 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, you were a leper. Its four characters are heroes to a lot of women; they run around New York, or Gotham - but they have fancy shoes instead of capes.

  Michael Patrick King

  Running, Sex, New York

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• They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Machines, Wonderful

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• Mastering the Art of French Cooking... doesn't mean it has to be fancy cooking, although it can be as elaborate as you wish.

  Julia Child

  Art, Mean, Cooking

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.15, Knopf

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• Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

  Varg Vikernes

  Real, Lying, Clothes

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• Creativity Is a fancy word for the work we have to do by Friday.

  David Ogilvy

  Friday, Creativity

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• I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Men, Knowing Nothing, Trifling

  "Apology Of Socrates And Crito". Book by Plato, Read Books Ltd, 2016.

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• Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

  Seneca the Younger

  People, Prison, Innocent

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• He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Past, Gone

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Sidney Colvin, William Ernest Henley (1918). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”

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