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• Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Hero, Gun, Guy

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• It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

  Leif Enger

  Crush, War, Believe

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.166, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

  Laura Lippman

  Infinite, Courses

  Laura Lippman (2011). “What the Dead Know”, p.59, Hachette UK

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• Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

  Stephen King

  Magic, Way, Seven

  Stephen King (2007). “It: Film tie-in edition of Stephen King’s IT”, p.827, Hachette UK

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• What a large number of factors constitute a single human being! How very many layers we operate on, and how very many influences we receive from our minds, our bodies, our histories, our families, our cities, our souls and our lunches!

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Cities, Lunch, Soul

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.52, A&C Black

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• Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sunset, Missing, Want

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.192, Scholastic

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• And then as always, I saw the prayer coming at me. And, as always, Number 1 killed me! Set me on fire, cooked me to medium rare and then ate me! I really, really, really hope I haven't just given away the ending of this story.

  James Patterson

  Prayer, Fire, Stories

  James Patterson (2008). “The Dangerous Days of Daniel X”, p.14, Random House

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• Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

  Lisa Kleypas

  Kindness, Spring, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Scandal in Spring”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle of the prarie, in the middle of Texas, which was about as middle of nowhere as it was possible to get unless you wanted to go to Mongolia or something.... Claire started dialing numbers. The first person told her that they'd already found somebody.... The second one sounded like a weird old guy. The third one was a weird old lady. The fourth one... well, the fourth one was just plain weird.

  Rachel Caine

  Phones, Texas, Cells

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• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Lying, Book

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

  Mother Teresa

  Hard Work, Order, Degrees

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.29, New World Library

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• For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

  David Nicholls

  Night, Phones, Years

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• Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers.

  Bill O'Reilly

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• I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Differences, People, Feelings

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• She would consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Miracle

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• • Eating disorders are addictions. You become addicted to a number of their effects. The two most basic and important: the pure adrenaline that kicks in when you're starving—you're high as a kite, sleepless, full of a frenetic, unstable energy—and the heightened intensity of experience that eating disorders initially induce. At first, everything tastes and smells intense, tactile experience is intense, your own drive and energy themselves are intense and focused. Your sense of power is very, very intense. You are not aware, however, that you are quickly becoming addicted.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Two, Smell, Addiction

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• I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Wrong Number, Ideas

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.83, Random House

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• He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.

  Steve Martin

  Kissing, Phones, Interesting

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• If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  People, World, Remember

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Letters From Father Christmas”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The two horsewomen of the apocalypse still win, despite their dwindling numbers.

  Melina Marchetta

  Winning, Two, Apocalypse

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• Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Glasses, Dust, Life Is Like

  Maria V. Snyder (2017). “The Glass Series Complete Collection: Storm Glass\Sea Glass\Spy Glass”, p.358, MIRA

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• my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

  Nick Hornby

  Phones, People, Lost

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Glasses, Generosity

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.363

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• A person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Life, Conversation

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• I'm afraid that my wife picked up a number of colorful expressions from the Yanks and such, Frank offered, with a nervous smile. True, I said, gritting my teeth as I wrapped a water-soaked napkin about my hand. Men tend to be very colorful when you're picking shrapnel out of them.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Expression, Hands

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.22, Dell

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