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• Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.

  Booth Tarkington

  Ninety Nine, People, Gossip

  Booth Tarkington (2013). “The Essential Booth Tarkington Collection”, p.2177, eBookIt.com

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• The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Firsts, Truth Is, Unnoticed

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• You just go on your nerve.

  Frank O'Hara

  Nerves

  "He does this, he does that" by Charles Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2003.

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• He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that goes on here, you know. I reckon he had a pretty good idea we were going to try, and instead of stopping us, he just taught us enough to help. I don't think it was an accident he let me find out how the Mirror worked. It's almost like he thought I had the right to face Voldemort if I could.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Thinking, Mirrors

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• I promise that this will be the last time you’ll see me. I won’t come back. I won’t put you through anything like this again. You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I’d never existed.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, Promise, Lasts

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.48, Hachette UK

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• He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Past, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

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• You can learn to change the world or go on being changed by it.

  Laurence Yep

  World, Changing The World, Changed

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• High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

  John Green

  Funny, Senior, Queens

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.489, Penguin

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• We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

  Libba Bray

  Honesty, Eye, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Left Hanging, Golden, Way

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Miles Between”, p.212, Macmillan

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• Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

  David Levithan

  Get Better, Blah, Young

  David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.7, Egmont UK

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• In this sleepless night, as the darkness advances, look up at the sky and somehow remember that somewhere in this wide world, there are always people who love you, and people who need you. Because every person can't go on living alone.

  Ai Yazawa

  Love You, Night, Sky

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• My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

  Oscar Wilde

  Loyalty, Passion, Boys

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.48, Prestwick House Inc

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• In a world beyond this one, that river goes on singing sweetly, enchanting us with what we want to hear, shaping what we need to see in order to keep going. In those waters, all disappointments are forgotten, our mistakes forgiven. Gazing into them, we see a strong father. A loving mother. Warm rooms where we are sheltered, adored, wanted. And the uncertainty of our futures is nothing more than the fog of breath on a windowpane.

  Libba Bray

  Mother, Strong, Disappointment

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in - you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're going to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Song, Thinking

  "Saturday". Book by Ian Mcewan, 2005.

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• We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Stories, Speak, Ends

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• Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Forever, Good Things, Ends

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• The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Way, Done, Losing

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• There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on underwater,you realize that you've been missing the whole point of the ocean. Staying on the surface all the time is like going to the circus and staring at the outside of the tent.

  Dave Barry

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Blessed, Magic Moments

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• And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Fairy Tale, Spokes

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• That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Way, Never Forget

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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• Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only a few mouthfuls of water “you are a fine looking old man” I said to myself in the mirror “and what is more you have the correct attitude You don’t care if it ends or if it goes on And as for the women and the music there will be plenty of that in Paradise” Then I went to the Mosque of Memory to express my gratitude

  Leonard Cohen

  Gratitude, Morning, Couple

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.157, McClelland & Stewart

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• Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on. Man, not men. ~Equality 7-2521 (as Prometheus), pgs 103-104

  Ayn Rand

  Sleep, Heart, Men

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• It's not easy-living in a void, living and dying inside your head…wanting what you want so much that you'd give everything else to get it- but the time still passes, the days go on…and as long as there's still a tomorrow, there's always a chance.

  Kevin Brooks

  Long, Giving, Dying

  Kevin Brooks (2014). “Candy”, p.252, Chicken House

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