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• A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Jobs, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

  Paul Bowles

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, World

  Paul Bowles, Gena Dagel Caponi (1993). “Conversations with Paul Bowles”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• …the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status than the belief of a particular West African tribe that the world was created from the excrement of ants.

  Richard Dawkins

  Atheist, African Tribes, Special

  Richard Dawkins (1991). “The blind watchmaker”

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• Today is just one of those days the sun comes out to really humiliate you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Today, Sun, One Of Those Days

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor: A Novel”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.

  Francis Chan

  Add, Want, Invitations

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.153, David C Cook

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• I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Greed, Motivated

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• That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Two, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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• …You don’t want the best of times to be just one thing, forever. You have to have a lot of bests of times, each one topping the last. You know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Forever, Want, Lasts

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.59, Penguin

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• Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which side of the "half" fence you are on: Does your life include a lie or just one big if? There is nothing wrong with either to be honest, but it will make your Sundays longer.

  Corey Taylor

  Lying, Sunday, Simple

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• When you're used to having electricity and then all of a sudden it's taken away, you're basically just one step from being a wild animal.

  Jeff Kinney

  Taken, Animal, Steps

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• Jesse, who had not stirred the whole time from the spot he'd been standing, confident I could handle Cheryl myself, was grinning. "It's every girl's dream to guy to go to prom with the guy she loves?" he echoed, not just one, but both inky black eyebrows raised. "Don't start with me," I said. I tried to hide my suddenly flaming cheeks by scraping away what was left of the cannolis, and replacing them with the contents of an upended bag of chocolate chip cookies. "I have things to do.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Dream, Eyebrows

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• * if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Happiness, Stars

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• Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

  Bill Bryson

  Looks, Snapshots, Earth

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.168, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hero, Finals, Pieces

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.173, Delacorte Press

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• I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one.

  Erlend Loe

  Fun, Believe, Mean

  Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.135, Canongate Books

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• It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

  Rachel Cohn

  Stories, Might, Realizing

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

  Sarah Dessen

  Believe, Way, Persons

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “Someone Like You”, p.180, Hachette UK

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• He was beastly tired, but it was hard to stop. One more book, he had told himself, then I'll stop. One more folio, just one more. One more page, then I'll go up and rest and get a bite to eat. But there was always another page after that one, and another after that, and another book waiting underneath the pile. I'll just take a quick peek to see what this one is about, he'd think, and before he knew he would be halfway through it.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Tired, Thinking

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.2482, Bantam

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• After a sleepless night the body gets weaker, It becomes dear and not yours - and nobody's. Just like a seraph you smile to people And arrows moan in the slow arteries. After a sleepless night the arms get weaker And deeply equal to you are the friend and foe. Smells like Florence in the frost, and in each Sudden sound is the whole rainbow. Tenderly light the lips, and the shadow's golden Near the sunken eyes. Here the night has sparked This brilliant likeness - and from the dark night Only just one thing - the eyes - are growing dark.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Eye, Dark, Night

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• From that first little touch, the whole world had shifted. Where before there was just one thing I could not live without, now there were two. There was no division – my love was not split between them now; it wasn’t like that. It was more like my heart had grown, swollen up to twice its size in that moment. All that extra space, already filled. The increase was almost dizzying.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Space, Two

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• It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam

  Gayle Forman

  One Day, Twenties, Four

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• Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

  Gayle Forman

  Falling In Love, Believe, One Day

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from May 19, 2015

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• When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he and Kat had last used in Monte Carlo. Hale smiled a little, realizing he hadn’t worn the tux in ages. It was just one of many ways his life had change in the years since a girl named Katarina Bishop crawled into his window and into his life." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Phones, Years

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• Now if you're not „hot”, you are expected to work on it until you are. It's like when you renovate a house and you're legally required to leave just one of the original walls standing. If you don't have a good body you have down to a neutral shape, then bolt on some breast implants, replace your teeth, dye you hair, and call yourself the Playmate of the Year. How do we survive this? How do we teach our daughters and our gay sons that they are good enough the way they are? We have to lead by example.

  Tina Fey

  Daughter, Wall, Son

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• I wish we had a sign that this flaming dragon is part of an attack or something. Those dung heaps might think it’s just one of their own monsters enjoying the sunrise.

  Tamora Pierce

  Thinking, Dragons, Sunrise

  Tamora Pierce (2009). “The Realms of the Gods”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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