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• ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.

  Lionel Shriver

  Life, Thinking, Attachment

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.167, Profile Books

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• Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

  June Jordan

  Running, Hurt, Good Life

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.105, Basic Books

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• Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale’s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Stupid, Writing, Intelligent

  "Player Piano". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1952.

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• Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things.

  Ann Brashares

  Happiness, Being Happy, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Ann Brashares from Mar 01, 2012

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• I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, People, Appreciate

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.23, Penguin

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• All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer Up, Dust, Needs

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• "You are okay?" he asked. "Not eaten by monsters?" "Not even a little bit." I showed him that I still had both arms and both legs, and Tyson clapped happily. "Yay!" he said. "Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!" I hoped he didn't mean all at the same time, but I told him absolutely, we'd have a lot of fun this summer.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Fun, Mean

  "Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth". Book by Rick Riordan, May 6, 2008.

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• [I had a]...Second bowl of oatmeal. It was a little bit gloppy.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Oatmeal, Littles, Bowls

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• To Stay Focused in Life: You can't know everyone You can't do everything You can't go everywhere We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Littles, Stay Focused, Knows

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• If i had to do it all over again? Why not, I would do it a little bit differently.

  Freddie Mercury

  Why Not, Littles, Bits

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• I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world. --Terri Mitchell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Inspirational, Learning, Fighting

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• ...Don't feel sorry for me. I'm glad I had a second chance in life like you said to be smart because I learned a lot of things that I never knew were in this world, and I'm grateful I saw it even for a little bit.

  Daniel Keyes

  Sorry, Smart, Grateful

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• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Holiday, Mean

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Life, Art, Truth

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• You don't find love, it finds you. It's got a little bit to do with destiny, fate, and what's written in the stars.

  Anais Nin

  Inspirational, Stars, Fate

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• Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble

  Sarah Dessen

  Regret, Perfect, Littles

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.114, Penguin

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• I consider myself one of a very small handful of drivers in the world that are top drivers. The best one? I don't think anybody can say they're the best one because, from one week to the next, you can be on form or off form a little bit.

  Nigel Mansell

  Athlete, Thinking, World

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• We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

  Lee Pearson

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• Behind me are a hard 2 weeks of training, so I feel a little bit tired right now, but my goal for the race in Cardiff and Pau remains the same as in all races. I want to do well and have good runs and enjoy racing. The results come by itself when I do that.

  Peter Kauzer

  Running, Tired, Athlete

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• I kind of just lost track of laps. I couldn't hear a split. It was just so loud in here everyone was going nuts. I sort of felt like I was a little tired and I said, the people in front of me seem like they are falling off the lead pack a little bit. I should probably make a move. I hear ding, ding, ding, ding and I thought "oh crap! I've really got to go, I've got a lot left.

  Will Leer

  Moving, Fall, Tired

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• There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

  H. Rap Brown

  Pregnancy, Second Chance, Class

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• But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Adversity, Perfect

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

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• He..." Richard began. "The marquis. Well, you know, to be honest, he seems a little bit dodgy to me." Door stopped. The steps dead-ended in a rough brick wall. "Mm," she agreed. "He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Doors, Fur

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• A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

  Salman Rushdie

  Ideas, Stories, Hey

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• For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Order, Restoration

  Interview with Don Swaim, 1987.

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