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• History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

  George Orwell

  Endless

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.51, Oberon Books

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• I don’t see any police cars.” “They probably had to park a couple blocks over. Anyway, as I was saying, I noticed illegal substances in the hands of a few guests.” “So?” she snapped. “It’s a party.” “Alcohol is illegal under the age of twenty-one.” “Great!” Marcie shouted. “What am I going to do?” She paused, then raised her voice again. “You probably called them!” “Who, me?” Vee said. “And lose the free food? No way.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Couple, Block, Hands

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• I need to go to parties, Raisa mused, so I don't think so much.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Thinking, Needs

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• There’s nothing like a gunshot to make you the life of the party.

  Holly Black

  Gunshots

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Guy, Leaving, Great Gifts

  "The Girl in Blue". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1970.

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• If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morality, Speak, Social

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• My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

  Pink

  Knowing, Naked, Definitions

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• I got to play Kim in Bye Bye Birdie, Sandy in Grease, and Maria in The Sound of Music. And it was so much fun for me, but the thing that I looked forward to the most was at the cast parties. After the shows they had karaoke machines set up and that's when I could sing country music.

  Taylor Swift

  Country, Fun, Play

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• Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

  Louise Rennison

  Night, Cocktails, Cocktail Parties

  Louise Rennison (2013). “The Fab Confessions of Georgia Nicolson:”, p.10, HarperCollins UK

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• The Tarahumara would party like this all night, then rouse themselves the next morning to face off in a running race that could last not two miles, not two hours, but two full days. According to the Mexican historian Francisco Almada, a Tarahumara champion once ran 435 miles, the equivalent of setting out for a jog in New York City and not stopping till you were closing in on Detroit.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Morning, New York

  "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen". Book by Christopher McDougall, March 29, 2011.

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• I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

  Stephen Fry

  Tupperware, Found

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.125, The Overlook Press

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• As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

  Susan Cain

  Boys, Long, People

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• He scowled at me."You aren't any fun." "Party pooper extraordinaire,that's me.

  Kiersten White

  Fun

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• Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

  Lauren Kate

  School, Kids, Reform

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• Tiffany knew what the problem was immediately. She'd seen it before, at birthday parties. Her brother was suffering from tragic sweet deprivation. Yes, he was surrounded by sweets. But the moment he took any sweet at all, said his sugar-addled brain, that meant he was not taking all the rest. And there were so many sweets he'd never be able to eat them all. It was too much to cope with. The only solution was to burst into tears.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sweet, Brother, Brain

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• Kaldar smiled at her. Now there was a work of art. If she were just a girl and he were just a man, and they met at a party, that smile would've guaranteed him a date. The man was hot. There was no doubt. But right now, all it would get him was a solid punch in those even teeth. Audrey laughed. "Aren't you sweet? Tell me, do girls usually throw their panties at you when you do that?" He grinned wider, and she glimpsed the funny evil spark in his eyes. "Do men throw money when you do your little Southern belle?

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Sweet, Art

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Fate's Edge”, p.103, NYLA

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• ‎''Just think, never to be glad or disappointed. Never to like anyone and get cross at him and forgive him. Never to sleep or feel cold, never to make a mistake and have a stomach-ache and be cured from it, never to have a birthday party, drink beer, and have a bad conscience... How terrible.

  Tove Jansson

  Mistake, Sleep, Beer

  Tove Jansson (2014). “Tales from Moominvalley”, p.143, Macmillan

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• There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Quarrels, Spite

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield”, p.439

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• Simon turned to Jordan, who was lying down across the futon, his head propped against one of the woven throw pillows. "How much of that did you hear?" "Enough to gather that we're going to a party tonight," said Jordan. "I heard about the Ironworks event. I'm not in the Garroway pack, so I wasn't invited." "I guess you're coming as my date now." Simon shoved the phone back into his pocket. "I'm secure enough in my masculinity to accept that," said Jordan. "We'd better get you something nice to wear, though," he called as Simon headed back into his room. "I want you to look pretty.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Lying, Phones

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away.

  Lauren Willig

  Clever, Cutting, Long

  Lauren Willig (2011). “The Secret History of the Pink Carnation”, p.232, Allison & Busby

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• Somethings in life are out of your control. you can make it a party or a tragedy. Or, you could refuse to take the next step. You could refuse to take what you wanted most because you're afraid some day you might lose it.

  Nora Roberts

  Tragedy, Next Steps, Might

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.221, Penguin

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• The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up. Like a tie at a tag sale, some perfect thing in a crate of nothing, you were just there, uninvited, and now suddenly the party was over and you were all I wanted. I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Ties, Perfect

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• Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

  Lena Dunham

  Documentaries, Okay, Best Nature

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• A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Together, Machines, Sausage

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• She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

  Candace Bushnell

  Lonely, Home, Tired

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