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• It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

  Tennessee Williams

  Saying Goodbye, Mushrooms, Soup

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• It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth.

  Antonin Sertillanges

  Choices, Mind, Might

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• Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into appearances. I like flaws, I think they make things interesting." I wasn't sure what answer I'd expected. But this wasn't it. For a second, I just sat there, letting it sink in. "You know," I said finally, "saying stuff like that would make girls even crazier for you. Now you're cuteand somewhat more attainable. If you were appealing before, now you're off the charts.

  Sarah Dessen

  Girl, Real, Mean

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.138, Penguin

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• He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.

  Don DeLillo

  Art, New York, Air

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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• That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does a falling tree in the forest make a sound if there's no one there to hear it, and then just when you think they're going to start dribbling one of 'em says, incidentally, putting a thirty-foot parabolic reflector on a high place to shoot the rays of the sun at an enemy's ships would be a very interesting demonstration of optical principles.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fall, Thinking, Feet

  "Small Gods". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1992.

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• He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.

  Steve Martin

  Kissing, Phones, Numbers

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• We want to see a struggle. We want to see people falling over but getting themselves back up on their feet, and that's what's extraordinary- ordinary people and their struggle. There's nothing as interesting as real life out your window. You walk down the street for half an hour, I'll give you half an hour of drama.

  Ricky Gervais

  Real, Drama, Struggle

  "Ricky Gervais Has An Animated Post-'Office' Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 3, 2010.

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• The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Taken, Discovery

  Review of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre in "Alger Républicain", (p. 5), October 20, 1938.

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• My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me.
  But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Girlfriend, Heart

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

  Horace

  Poetry, Enough, Should

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 99, 18 BC.

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• If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Atheist, Catholic

  Interview with Chip Rowe, www.playboy.com. August 20, 2012.

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• It is an interesting and demonstrable fact that all children are atheists and were not religion inculcated in their minds, they would remain so.

  Ernestine Rose

  Atheist, Children, Mind

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• The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

  Roberto Bolano

  Men, Air, People

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• It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

  Dan Wells

  Max, Matter

  Dan Wells (2010). “I Am Not A Serial Killer”, p.26, Macmillan

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• I was disappointed in Coop. He hated being bored and so did I. He was always looking for different things to do and coming up with new adventures that kept us moving. That was his job. Trolling for girls at the beach was okay by me, but I didn't want it to be our sole focus. Besides, the girls I liked had more interesting things to do than spend every waking moment sitting around at the beach comparing tans.

  D. J. MacHale

  Girl, Beach, Jobs

  D.J. MacHale (2010). “The Light”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

  Iris Murdoch

  Passion, Character, Thinking

  "Fictional character: Iris Murdoch". "Iris", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Intelligent, Community

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

  Richelle Mead

  Jail, Car, Sound

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.43, Penguin

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• It's fairly easy to break hearts, Miss Duvall. The more interesting challenge is how to keep someone's love, not to lose it.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Missing, Challenges

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Someone to Watch over Me”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

  Charlaine Harris

  Fiction, Boring, Truth Is

  "Dead As A Doornail: A True Blood Novel". Book by Charlaine Harris, July 30, 2009.

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• That, my dear, is what makes a character interesting, their secrets.

  Kate Morton

  Character, Secret, Dear

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.350, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes we have thoughts that even we don’t understand. Thoughts that aren’t even true—that aren’t really how we feel—but they’re running through our heads anyway because they’re interesting to think about. If you could hear other people’s thoughts, you’d overhear things that are true as well as things that are completely random. And you wouldn’t know one from the other. It’d drive you insane. What’s true? What’s not? A million ideas, but what do they mean?

  Jay Asher

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Imagination, Pirate

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• Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.

  Frank O'Hara

  Beautiful, Country, Laughter

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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