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• When I give the go ahead, go ahead," Alyss said, the jungle gym having come to a stop less than a gwormmy-length from her face. What? the four General Doppels cried at once. Run when I say so.

  Frank Beddor

  Running, Giving, Four

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• She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come out. Not often anyway, and certainly not for any length of time. But her mind takes her to somewhere kind, I think, to judge by the peaceful, serene look on her face most of the time.

  Malorie Blackman

  Thinking, Judging, Peaceful

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

  Tanith Lee

  Butterfly, Blood, Towers

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.

  Shirley Jackson

  Hands, Two, Luck

  "We Have Always Lived in the Castle". Book by Shirley Jackson, www.elle.com. 1962.

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• Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Party, Gay, Kissing

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.41, Granta Books

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• When people believe you have something to give, something no one else has, they'll go to great lengths and pay a lot of money for it.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Believe, People, Giving

  Sarah Addison Allen (2007). “Garden Spells”, p.143, Bantam

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• Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed to have scissors any more. It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me... I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people.

  Emilie Autumn

  Believe, Cutting, Past

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• But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids. I didn't care if they sang to me. All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again, pulling me upward into light, to drown.

  Sarah Dessen

  Block, Sleep, Light

  "Dreamland". Book by Sarah Dessen, September 1, 2000.

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• Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person's silence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Long, Silence, Needs

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

  Helen Keller

  Lying, Heaven, Soul

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.69, Om Books International

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• There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in pieces. I must have time alone in which to mull over my encounter, and to extract its juice, its essence, to understand what has really happened to me as a consequence of it.

  May Sarton

  Essence, People, Challenges

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

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• As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Mean, Years, Numbers

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• Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

  Hugh Howey

  Men, Long, Way

  "Wool Omnibus Edition". Book by Hugh Howey, January 25, 2012.

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• Real joy means immediate expansion. If we experience pure joy, immediately our heart expands. We feel that we are flying in the divine freedom-sky. The entire length and breadth of the world becomes ours, not for us to rule over, but as an expansion of our consciousness. We become reality and vastness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Heart, Mean

  Sri Chinmoy (1997). “The Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

  John Milton

  Time, Elements, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 274

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• I hope...that mankind will at length, as they call themselves reasonable creatures, have reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats; for in my opinion there never was a good war, or a bad peace.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Peace, War, Cutting

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• Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limitations, to show my inner strength. No obstacle too hard, for this warrior to overcome. I'm just a man on a mission, to prove my disability hasn't won.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Strength, Adversity, Warrior

  Robert M. Hensel, “Beyond Limitations”

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• I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Europe, Degrees

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Fall, Dark

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.198, Courier Corporation

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• You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Love, Good Night, Hands

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir (2008). “The Stark Munro Letters: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We never want to be a band that keeps our fans at arm’s length. This has always been about us and our fans together. We’ve been on an amazing journey with our fans already, but knowing that the best is still to come is a pretty
  exciting feeling for all of us.

  Jared Leto

  Journey, Knowing, Feelings

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• Always observe your opponent carefully. You need to use the
  first seconds of every encounter to evaluate the length of their
  blade, the length of their arms, etc.

  Masaaki Hatsumi

  Encounters, Needs, Use

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• It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Writing, Three

  "Don DeLillo: 'I'm not trying to manipulate reality - this is what I see and hear'" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2010.

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• It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

  Thomas A. Edison

  People, Remarkable

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