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• Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

  Wendell Berry

  Fear, Loneliness, Novelty

  Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.9, Counterpoint Press

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• I'm good with words, but not the spoken kind; I've often thought what a marvelous thing it would be if I could only conduct relationships on paper.

  Kate Morton

  Would Be, Paper, Marvelous

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.

  Meg Cabot

  Car, Fake, Tree

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• I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout.

  John Gardner

  Memories, Boys, Past

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.62, Vintage

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• She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Mind, Deals

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.550, Hamilton Books

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• Then how about we start with a shower," he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.

  J.R. Ward

  Voice, Cleanliness, Made

  J.R. Ward (2011). “Envy: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.222, Penguin

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• When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.

  Stephen King

  Moving, Heart, Night

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• There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

  Richard Scarry

  Children, Book, Writing

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• He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like I was strong. That is all I need to know.

  Veronica Roth

  Sweet, Strong, Smart

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• In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere of distrust and one of trust, between setting an example of power and helping children to learn responsibility, between quick-fix parenting and the kind that's focused on long-term goals.

  Alfie Kohn

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  Alfie Kohn (2006). “Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I like you a lot. Because you’re funny and smart and because you seem to like me. I know that’s not a good reason, but I can’t help it; if a girl likes me I tend to like her back [...] I like you for all this stuff but I also kind of like you for the cuts on your face—

  Ned Vizzini

  Girl, I Like You, Smart

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• It's not just a miracle; it's a miracle with chocolate. Best kind.

  Rachel Caine

  Miracle, Chocolate

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.2082, Penguin

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• That’s hard core, Gin,” Finn replied. “Very hard core. Kind of kinky too.” A grim smile tightened my lips. “That’s me. Gin Blanco. Hard core and kinky to the bitter end.

  Jennifer Estep

  Kinky, Lips, Bitter

  Jennifer Estep (2010). “Venom: An Elemental Assassin Book”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living and growing even though our world is a corpse? That we keep coming back no matter how many of us die?

  Isaac Marion

  Beautiful, Thinking, Our World

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Hatred

  "Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1956.

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• What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dining, Persons

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.

  Anton Chekhov

  Taken, Thinking, Men

  "About Love and Other Stories". Book by Anton Chekhov (p. 4), June 10, 2004.

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• I'm liking that I can throw any kind of sentence at her without worrying it's too out there.

  Rachel Cohn

  Worry, Sentences, I Can

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist”, p.38, Egmont UK

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• Unhappiness. There are all kinds of unhappy people in the world. I suppose it would be no exaggeration to say that the world is composed entirely of unhappy people. But those people can fight their unhappiness with society fairly and squarly, and society for its part easily understands and sympathizes with such struggles. My unhappiness stemmed entirely from my own vices, and I had no way of fighting anybody.

  Osamu Dazai

  Struggle, Fighting, People

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

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• Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Father, Black And White

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• There is something hugely civilised about allowing long pauses in a conversation. Very few people can stand that kind of silence.

  James Robertson

  Patience, Long, People

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• I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

  Orson Welles

  Joy, Happy Person, Persons

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• Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Dark, Thinking, Needs

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• I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Shadow, Monsters, Towns

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• I lay there, no longer fighting, since my head was spinning too much. And because I wasn’t going to win anyway. And because I kind of liked the feeling of sensual captivity, at least by this particular jailer.

  Karen Chance

  Fighting, Winning, Feelings

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