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• When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2,000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

  Jane Smiley

  Friendship, Summer, Mother

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• The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Divine, Music Is, Delicate

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• Cherry Money Baby is fabulous in every sense of the word! It’s earthy and smart and moving, laugh-out-loud funny, surprising, inventive, suspenseful, and — Oh, Hell — just gorgeously written!

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Baby, Smart, Moving

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• I love fast cars, loud guns and classic rock 'n' roll, but I'd never do any of it in
  flats. I love me a nice, big uncomfortable pair of heels and some big hair! Maybe
  it's a Southern thing, but I love dressing up. It's everything I can do not to leave
  the house in a goddamn prom dress every day.

  Amber Heard

  Nice, Gun, Hair

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• As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.

  Kim Basinger

  Mother, Teacher, Children

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• Work hard, don't quit, be appreciative, be thankful, be grateful, be respectful, also to never whine ever, never complain, and, always, for crying out loud, keep a sense of humor.

  Michael Keaton

  Motivational, Moving On, Thankful

  "Michael Keaton Gave An Incredibly Personal Acceptance Speech About His Tough Childhood" by Kirsten Acuna, www.businessinsider.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become
  strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream.

  Henry Rollins

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Loud Voices, Stories

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eight, Doors, People

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Night, Drifting Off

  Mark Twain (2010). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Only Authoritative Text Based on the Complete, Original Manuscript”, p.78, Univ of California Press

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• I wish you were a mind-reader. I want you to know everything but I don't want to have to tell you. Because there are some things I don't want to say out loud.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mind, Wish, Want

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.284, St. Martin's Press

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• Everyone else we knew growing up is the same: image of their parents, no matter how loud they told themselves they'd be different

  Tana French

  Growing Up, Parent, Different

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• I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

  Thom Yorke

  Hate, Car, Toxic

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• I was constantly being dragged out of movies for laughing too loud.

  Neil Simon

  Laughing

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• I could learn photography. That could be something to want. I could photograph children. I could have my own children. I would give them yellow roses. And if they got too loud, I would just put them some place quiet. Put them in the oven. And I would kiss them every day, and tell them you don't have to be anybody, because I would know that being somebody doesn't make you anybody anyway.

  Gia Carangi

  Photography, Children, Kissing

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• It seems to me that most people are impressed with just three things: how fast you can play, how high you can play, and how loud you can play.

  Chet Baker

  Play, People, Three

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• When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

  Dr. John

  Voice, Profound, Vision

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• That's what music is to me. Like, stuff that I really like to play loud. And I've got my quiet CDs, too, that I listen to around the house, but if you can't go there, then... Everyone gets so upset with me, I can't win

  Liz Phair

  Winning, Cds, Play

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• Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Lying, Stupid

  Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.247

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• So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Mountain, Whirlwind

  Oliver Goldsmith (1851). “The Traveller”, p.7

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• But if you've really learned how to think, how to pay attention, then you will know you have other options. It will be within your power to experience a crowded, loud, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the sub-surface unity of all things.

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Stars, Compassion

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Everything is going killer. It's loud and dirty and everything that people expect from DOPE . This situation is nothing new for any of us and so far it's been pretty effortless. We are all crazy excited to get back to Japan and party our asses off, not to mention that we can't wait to kick some Japanese ass on Halloween.

  Brian Ebejer

  Crazy, Halloween, Party

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• Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Letting Go, Spring, Struggle

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• Stop tryin to be loud as me, cause you can't do that,
  Think about it...playing Russian roulette with an automatic!

  Fredro Starr

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.

  Ludwig Feuerbach

  Philosophy, Teaching, Taken

  "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.

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