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• I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Party, Writing, Sleep

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Wonder, Perks Of A Wallflower, Really Happy

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Honesty, Kids, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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  I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

  Emma Watson

  Being Yourself, Want, Figures

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Aug 02, 2012

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• There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Happiness, Bad Day, Laughing

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• I would die for you. But I won't live for you.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love, Perks Of A Wallflower, Dies

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• The audience is invisible and that's good. Somewhere my voice is drifting through a swine barn and the sound of it seems to perk up the sows' appetite. Or a lady is listening on headphones as she jogs along a beach, running to my cadence. Or a dog sits in front of the radio, head cocked, and the sibilants excite him in some mysterious way. A dog's humorist, that's me.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, Dog, Beach

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

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• I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just not exist.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Sleep, Years, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger. It would perk up my day.

  James Patterson

  Decision, Leader, Chaos

  "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

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• I had all those cable networks reporting to me, I had a number of windows in my office and I had all the corporate perks you could possibly imagine, but that wasn't what I was about, so I left.

  Geraldine Laybourne

  Numbers, Office, Window

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• One of the great perks of being an actor is you're only as smart as the job you're in, you know, and you're only as informed as the job you're in, and you do become an expert, and you read all the books, but then there's a part of, like, you move on.

  Amy Ryan

  Jobs, Smart, Moving

  "Amy Ryan Interview Green Zone". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. March 10, 2010.

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• I noticed you right away." She gave me an approving look. "I like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you weren't gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul." "Uh...sorry," I said. "It's pretty much full-time now. The pay's not great, but the perks...

  Josh Lanyon

  Sorry, Gay, Men

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• Being deceived into thinking the perks of slavery are a good thing, we can easily aquire a preference for chains and a taste for the slaves rations.

  Dennis Green

  Thinking, Taste, Slavery

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• People have to feel needed. Frequently, we just offer a job and 'perks.' We don't always offer people a purpose. When people feel there is a purpose and that they're needed, there's not much else to do except let them do the work.

  Maya Angelou

  Jobs, People, Purpose

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• Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Thinking, Perspective, Sometimes

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Coins, Meter

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.140, Penguin

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• I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

  James Woods

  People, Half, Favors

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• The first perk of theatre is the girls.

  James Spader

  Girl, Theatre, Firsts

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• I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

  Lucas Grabeel

  Would Be, Care, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are many perks to living for twenty-one centuries, and foremost among them is bearing witness to the rare birth of genius. It invariably goes like this: Someone shrugs off the weight of his cultural traditions, ignores the baleful stares of authority, and does something his countrymen think to be completely batshit insane. Of those, Galileo was my personal favorite. Van Gogh comes in second, but he really was batshit insane.

  Kevin Hearne

  Thinking, Insane, Twenties

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.12, Del Rey

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• I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.

  Logan Lerman

  Mom, Truth, Dad

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• I dumped out the bag and found what had been inside was a bunched-up police uniform, complete with the vest. "Where did you get this?" Boo asked. "It's Callum's," he said. "What's he wearing?" "At the moment, not much of anything. Put it on." I noticed Book perk up a bit at this piece of information.

  Maureen Johnson

  Book, Police, Bags

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• The right to be married was hard earned by the marriage equality movement and one of its "perks" is the right to use the terms commonly associated with marriage; husband and wife are the two most common.

  Steven Petrow

  Husband, Two, Wife

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and control many of the perks that board members count on. So it's not the invisible hand of the market that leads to those monumental executive incomes; it's the invisible handshake in the boardroom.

  Paul Krugman

  Keys, Hands, Invisible Hand

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