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• The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society.

  Cody Lundin

  Mainstream Society, Self, Majority

  Cody Lundin (2007). “When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes”, p.57, Gibbs Smith

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• Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ego, Garments

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• I'm in this process of trying to create a free space. Like an open field, where figure and ground are in very ambivalent, complex relationships. On top of that, I also wanted to see if I could try to blurt something out, or make something completely immediate, that ends up fitting perfectly.

  Amy Sillman

  Trying

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• My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketching to sampling and fitting.

  Nicole Richie

  Jobs, Creating, Sketching

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• So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Situation

  "The Evolution of the Human Intellect".

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• Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Adversity, Men

  Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1986, Delphi Classics

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• Its been nearly 1.5 years since the last PLUS 8 record, but it seemed fitting that this record in particular, made by a skinny white kid from Canada, became part of the labels collection and history.

  Richie Hawtin

  Kids, Years, White

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• We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.

  John Eldredge

  Country, Kings, Heart

  "The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life You've Always Dreamed Of".

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• I suppose you could call me...Soot," said the thing. "Yes...Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot.

  Garth Nix

  Names, Long, Boredom

  Garth Nix (2010). “The Keys to the Kingdom #2: Grim Tuesday”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Together, Twisted, Said

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• ...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Butterfly, Garden, Simple

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.57, Penguin

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• If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Numbers, Squares

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• I have a dress fitting to get to at three.' (Simon) 'Cool,' said Kyle, slinging his messenger bag over his shoulder and heading for the door. 'Get them to make you something in red. It's totally your color.

  Cassandra Clare

  Doors, Color, Dresses

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• Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fall, Shoes, One Day

  Jasper Fforde (2011). “One of our Thursdays is Missing: Thursday Next”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Good writing is the hardest form of thinking. It involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. If the writing is good, then the result seems effortless and inevitable. But when you want to say something life-changing or ineffable in a single sentence, you face both the limitations of the sentence itself and the extent of your own talent.

  Pat Conroy

  Life Changing, Writing, Thinking

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• The title 'Righteousness' is given to God because He assigns what is appropriate to all things; he distributes their due proportion, beauty, rank, arrangement, their proper and fitting place and order.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Order, Titles

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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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• After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise and future, after the years of schooling, fitting yourself into different size desks, memorizing, reciting, reporting, and performing for jury after jury of teachers, counselors, and administrators, you still feel inadequate, alone, vulnerable, and naked in a world that can be unforgiving and terribly demanding.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Teacher, Years, Voice

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• You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her!

  Sophie Kinsella

  Writing, Doors, Tears

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• In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sick, Healthy, Difficulty

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• Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she says, I have something I can say back. We’re sparking, and part of me just wants to sit back and watch. We’re clicking. Not because a part of me is fitting into a part of her. But because our words are clicking into each other to form sentences and our sentences are clicking into each other to form dialogue and our dialogue is clicking together to form this scene from this ongoing movie that’s as comfortable as it is unrehearsed.

  David Levithan

  Together, Watches, Our Words

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.47, Egmont UK

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• So, while fitting in, she was like a wicked detail standing out against a placid background.

  Steve Martin

  Wicked, Details, Standing Out

  Steve Martin (2010). “An Object of Beauty”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• The work of the inventor consists of conceptualizing, combining, and ordering what is possible according to the laws of nature. This inner working out which precedes the external has a twofold characteristic: the participation of the subconscious in the inventing subject; and that encounter with an external power which demands and obtains complete subjugation, so that the way to the solution is experienced as the fitting of one's own imagination to this power.

  Friedrich Dessauer

  Science, Law, Work Out

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• To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

  Thomas Merton

  Prayer, Silence, Unity

  Thomas Merton (2009). “A Search for Solitude: Pursuing the Monk's True Life, The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 3: 1952-1960”, p.47, Harper Collins

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• It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, Sleep, Rose

  "Charlie Sheen Honors Slash, Slams Axl Rose at Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony" by Arati Patel, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 11, 2012.

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