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• Maybe love was a myth anyhow, a brew of hormones and fantasy, evolution's way of getting men and women together long enough for them to procreate,back in the day when girls got pregnant at twelve, were pregnant or nursing for the next twenty years, and were dead of the plague by forty.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Girl, Nursing, Men

  Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  America, People, One Day

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.205, Beacon Press

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• There is a time in our lives, usually in mid-life, when a woman has to make a decision - possibly the most important psychic decision of her future life - and that is, whether to be bitter or not. Women often come to this in their late thirties or early forties. They are at the point where they are full up to their ears with everything and they've "had it" and "the last straw has broken the camel's back" and they're "pissed off and pooped out." Their dreams of their twenties may be lying in a crumple. There may be broken hearts, broken marriages, broken promises.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Dream, Lying, Heart

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• He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

  George Orwell

  Brother, Struggle, Taken

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

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• I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.

  Ray Bradbury

  Rain, Tired, Eight

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

  John Green

  Morning, Needs, Wake Up

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• Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.

  Miranda Hart

  Hands, Listening, Stranger

  Miranda Hart (2012). “Is It Just Me?”, p.99, Hachette UK

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• In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

  John Edward Williams

  Love Is, Years, Lasts

  John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

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• And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Memories, Regret, Broken

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press

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• There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

  Robin Sloan

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• So, tell me,” he whispers. “How fast did you climb those fourteen stories?” Thomas makes a disapproving sound in his throat, but I break into a grin. Storm’s past. Metias loves me again. “Six minutes,” I whisper back to my brother. “And forty-four seconds. How do you like that?” “That must be some sort of record. Not that, you know, you’re supposed to do it.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Past, Storm

  Beth Revis, Jessica Spotswood, Marie Lu, Ally Condie, Andrea Cremer (2012). “Breathless Reads Sampler”, p.74, Penguin

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• A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Needs, Alive, Wilderness

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• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Lonely, Believe, Years

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• A forty-foot worm?" Will muttered to Jem as they moved through the Italian garden, their boots - thanks to a pair of Soundless runes - making no noise on the gravel. "Think of the size of the fish we could catch." Jem's lips twitched. "It's not funny, you know." "It is a bit.

  Cassandra Clare

  Garden, Thinking, Italian

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

  Melina Marchetta

  Three, Seven, Fronts

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• What do you get if you multiply six by nine?" "Six by nine. Forty two." "That's it. That's all there is." "I always thought something was fundamentally wrong with the universe

  Douglas Adams

  Two, Nine, Six

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• Jews don't camp...The last time the Jews went camping, they spent forty years wandering in the desert.

  Daniel Silva

  Years, Camping, Desert

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• One thing I feel clear about is that it's important not to let your life live you. Otherwise, you end up at forty feeling you haven't really lived. What have I learned? Perhaps to live now, so that at fifty I won't look back upon my forties with regret.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Regret, Feelings, Important

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• I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Anger, Years, Trying

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “The 'Little Women' Trilogy (Illustrated)”, p.66, ShandonPress

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• It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

  Washington Gladden

  Positive, One Thing

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• The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.

  Robert Frost

  Motivational, Jobs, Careers

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• You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Fashion, Rest Of Your Life

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• For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Knowledge, Intuition

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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• If ignorance goes to forty dollars a barrel, I want drilling rights to George Bush's head.

  Jim Hightower

  Ignorance, Rights, Dollars

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