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• Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

  Diane Setterfield

  Needs, Call Me, Absent

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.361, Simon and Schuster

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• I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.

  Walt Whitman

  God, Faith, Letters

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.170, University of Iowa Press

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• You know the name you were given, you do not know the name that you have

  Jose Saramago

  Given, Knows

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• If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Fear, Understanding, May

  Patricia A. McKillip (1979). “Riddle of Stars”

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• Everybody should customize their names.

  Charles Baxter

  Should

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.153, Vintage

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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Bleeding, Lips

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• I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Mean, Depth, Needs

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• Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

  Susanna Clarke

  Girl, Looks, Married

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.111, A&C Black

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• Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Common Sense, Apes

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.73, Lulu Press, Inc

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• It's quite simple really. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simple no longer matter. That is why Elousia is such a wonderful name. God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things-ultimately emerging as the real-and appearances that mask that reality will fall away.

  William P. Young

  Real, Fall, Simple

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• For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Different, Entering

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It turned out that, like Satan, cancer had many names.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Cancer, Satan

  Khaled Hosseini (2011). “The Kite Runner: Rejacketed”, p.136, A&C Black

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• Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.

  Josip Broz Tito

  Men, Bosnians, Force

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• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Vision, Forget

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• And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

  John Christopher

  Faces, Remember, All Things

  John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Fine. Let Ranger get someone else. Trust me, you don't want to be out looking for a parking place on Sloane in the middle of the night." I won't have to look for a parking place. Tank's picking me up. Your working with a guy name Tank? He's big. Jesus, Morelli said. I had to fall in love with a woman who works with a guy named Tank. You love me? Of course i love you. I just don't want to marry you.

  Janet Evanovich

  Falling In Love, Jesus, Love You

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “High Five”, p.37, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Fall, School

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 25, 2012

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• I am known by many names, but you may call me...Tim.

  Graham Chapman

  May, Call Me, Known

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• And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, Keys, Louisville

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• In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

  James Joyce

  Running, Finnegans Wake

  James Joyce (2016). “Finnegans Wake”, p.91, James Joyce

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• Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

  Robin McKinley

  Creepy, Vampire, Mets

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• A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Allies, Masters

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

  Angela Carter

  Losing, Process

  Angela Carter (2011). “Heroes and Villains”, p.243, Penguin UK

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• Animals that not only move by their own free will and share feelings with people but also possess sight and hearing qualify as deserving of names.

  Haruki Murakami

  Moving, Animal, Sight

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