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• If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

  Lisa Jewell

  Destiny, Together Again, Two

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• There's a tap on the door then. We all exchange looks, Tommy Falk's as uncertain as the rest of ours. No one moves, so I finally wipe my hands off on my pants, go to the door, and open it a crack. Sean stands on the other side, one hand in his trouser pocket, the other holding a loaf of bread. I wasn't prepared for it to be Sean, so my stomach does a neat little trick that feels like either hunger or escaping.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moving, Escaping, Doors

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• It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

  Maeve Binchy

  Silly, Mean, Trying

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• The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

  David Levithan

  Years, World, Hours

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.200, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Creativity needs a bit of untidiness. Make everything too neat and there is no room for experiment.

  Charles Handy

  Business, Creativity, Needs

  Charles Handy (2008). “The Hungry Spirit: New Thinking for a New World”, p.35, Random House

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• You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Beautiful, Clever, Pages

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 1, sc. 1

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• Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Country, Moving, Love You

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• Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

  Jerome Lejeune

  Abortion, Individual, Conception

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• I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

  Spider Robinson

  Death, Suicide, Forever

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• English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit. ... Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds, kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden, English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.

  Alan Coren

  Sweet, Flower, Passion

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• 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Skins, Yards

  1596-7 Henry IV Part One, act 2, sc.5, l.245-52.

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• Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Cat, Wind, Shadow

  Cats (1934) p. 20

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• You look in my room and it looks neat enough but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

  Tamera Mowry

  Bed, Looks, Rooms

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Meat, Corn

  "Ode Inscribed toW. H. Channing" l. 50 (1847)

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• Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?

  Barry Commoner

  Powerful, Technology, Men

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• To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn't work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Work Out, Trying, Way

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• I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, Humane Way, Meat

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

  Winston Churchill

  White, Black, Sides

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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• Things of greatest profit are set forth with least price. Where the wine is neat there needeth no live blush.

  John Lyly

  Wine, Profit

  "Euphues". Book by John Lyly, 1578.

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• Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.

  Libba Bray

  Neat And Tidy, Forever, Soul

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.

  Mark Teixeira

  Running, Dirty, Home

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• If you sprinkle when you tinkle please be neat and wipe the seat.

  Simone Elkeles

  Wipe, Sprinkles, Please

  Simone Elkeles (2013). “Return to Paradise”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a neat freak... It seems to me that an orderly desk is reflective of an orderly and organized mind, you know?

  Jann Wenner

  Organized Mind, Freak, Desks

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• A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Blue, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.120

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• There is something indefinably keen and wan about her anatomy, and she has a watchful way of looking out of the corners of her eyes without turning her head which could be pleasantly dispensed with, especially when she is in an ill humour and near knives. Through all the good taste of her dress and little adornments, these objections so express themselves that she seems to go about like a very neat she-wolf imperfectly tamed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Knives

  Charles Dickens (1853). “Bleak house. [20 numbers in 19 monthly pts., orig. wrappers.].”, p.111

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