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• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.

  Robert Schumann

  Writing, Fate, Hands

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

  Gertrude Stein

  Supposing That, Strings, Beans

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• I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

  Gabrielle Union

  Years, Yesterday, Trying

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• We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Smart, Mean, Bisexual

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

  Milorad Pavić

  Jealous, Two, Scent

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• She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were.

  Ann Brashares

  Thinking, Different, Hey

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Last Summer (of You & Me)”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• I walk outside and scream at the top of my lungs, and it maybe travels two blocks. A whale unleashes his cry, and it travels hundreds or even thousands of miles. Every whale in the ocean will at one time or another run into that song. And I figure whales probably don't edit. If they think it, they say it...Whale talk is the truth, and in a very short period of time, if you're a whale, you know exactly what it is to be you.

  Chris Crutcher

  Running, Song, Block

  "Whale Talk". Book by Chris Crutcher, 2001.

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• Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

  Ray Bradbury

  Relationship, I Like You, Years

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Nov 27, 2015

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• One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mother, Hurt, Book

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.154, A&C Black

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• Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.

  Yann Martel

  Essence, Age, Christianity

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.63, Vintage Canada

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• Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Husband, Father, War

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.223, Dial Press

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• Revolution is not a one time event.

  Audre Lorde

  Revolution, Events

  "Sister Outsider". Book by Audre Lorde, 1984.

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• Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than five million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning.

  Kate Atkinson

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

  "Human Croquet: A Novel".

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• GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE OCEAN: At one time, maybe. But not now. GOD: I will come to you, freeze you, break you. THE OCEAN: I will spread myself like wings. I am a billion tiny feathers. You have no idea what's happened to me.

  Dave Eggers

  Ocean, Wings, Ideas

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How We Are Hungry”, p.28, Vintage

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• Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Law, Two

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• The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

  Italo Calvino

  Sea, Body, Creatures

  Italo Calvino (2014). “The Complete Cosmicomics”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Book, Slaughterhouse Five, Causes

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

  Norman Maclean

  Love, Inspirational, God

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• Everything gets horrible. Everything you see gets ugly. Lurid is the word. Doctor Garton said lurid, one time. That's the right word for it. And everything sounds harsh, spiny and harsh sounding, like every sound you hear all of a sudden has teeth. And smelling like I smell bad even after I just got out of the shower. It's like what's the point of washing if everything smells like I need another shower

  David Foster Wallace

  Smell, Doctors, Ugly

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• At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Stars, Laughter, Flower

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.111, eKitap Projesi

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• There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Time, Live In The Moment, Important

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• After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

  George W. Bush

  Time, Dad, Guy

  Remarks by the President at John Cornyn for Senate Reception, The Hyatt Regency, Houston, Texas, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 26, 2002.

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• I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Break Up, Breakup

  Song: Positively 4th Street

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• I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth.

  William Saroyan

  Time, Earth, Millions

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, New Directions Publishing

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• Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.

  Carleton Young

  Courage, Wall, Winning

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