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• If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.

  Sarah Weeks

  Color, Skins, Dinosaurs

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• People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

  James A. Baldwin

  Character, People, Tears

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• Poison." he said, deadpan. "That's an unusual name to give your child. You must love her very much." She's a treasure." Bram agreed, blithely ignoing the sarcasm. .... Then went a few dozen feet in silence, until they were out of eaarshor of the gaurd. She's a treasure." Poison mimicked, and Bram burst out laughing.

  Chris Wooding

  Children, Sarcasm, Feet

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• I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Book, Utah, Should Have

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Reading, Eyebrows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

  Max Lucado

  Max Lucado (2008). “Grace for the Moment Morning & Evening Edition: Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, p.732, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Be true to who you are and the family name you bare.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Being True, Be True To Who You Are, Family Name

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• Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.

  Agatha Christie

  Christian, Mother, Princess

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• Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in the army." I heard about them Rangers on TV," Grandma said. "I heard they get dogs pregnant." My father's mouth dropped open and a piece of ham fell out. My mother froze, her fork poised in midair. That's sort of a joke," I told Grandma. "Rangers don't get dogs pregnant in real life." I looked at Ranger for corroboration and got another smile.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Dog, Father

  Janet Evanovich (2001). “Three Plums In One: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.644, Simon and Schuster

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• Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

  Emily Bronte

  My Sister, Hereafter

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.461, Penguin

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• That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.

  Steve Toltz

  War, Stupid, Home

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Memories, Latin

  Isabel Allende (1989). “Eva Luna”, Bantam

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• the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?

  Lucille Clifton

  Team, Beer, Men

  Lucille Clifton (1993). “Next: new poems”, Bookslinger

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• The traveling salesmen fed me pills that made the lining of my veins feel scraped out, my jaw ached... I knew every raindrop by its name, I sensed everything before it happened. Like I knew a certain oldsmobile would stop even before it slowed, and by the sweet voices of the family inside, I knew we'd have an accident in the rain. I didn't care. They said they'd take me all the way.

  Denis Johnson

  Sweet, Rain, Voice

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• "What was the name of Pygmalion's sister?" She blinked, twice, obviously surprised. "Ummm," she said, keeping her eyes on me. "I don't know." Rogerson did," I told her. "Rogerson knew everything."

  Sarah Dessen

  Eye, Pygmalion, Said

  Sarah Dessen (2000). “Dreamland: A Novel”, Viking Childrens Books

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• They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

  Holly Black

  Things Change, Pins, Nameless

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

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• What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Vanity, Expression

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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• I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

  Anita Diament

  Song, Strong, Prayer

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• If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?

  Kay Ryan

  Loss, Self, Needs

  Kay Ryan (2007). “Say Uncle: Poems”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Unexpected

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “The Arthur Conan Doyle Early Novels MEGAPACK®: 15 Classic Novels”, p.2166, Wildside Press LLC

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• A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Doe, Talent, Familiar

  Daphne Du Maurier (1980). “The Rebecca notebook and other memories”, Book Sales

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• Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

  Joseph Heller

  Successful, Two, Gold

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Space, Spheres, Microsoft

  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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• The term bisexual has ended up as the ugly stepchild of sexuality, in both name and meaning. Its fate is symptomatic of the bisexual's own lot in life: to be as common as can be, but unacknowledged.

  Jennifer Baumgardner

  Fate, Bisexual, Ugly

  Jennifer Baumgardner (2008). “Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics”, p.63, Macmillan

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