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• I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Life, Sleep, People

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

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• I can’t believe you bit me there,” she finally said. “But what I really can’t believe is how it felt.” A smile curved his lips. “There are perks to being a vampire. That is one of them. I’ll enjoy showing you the others.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Believe, Vampire, Lips

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• It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Girl, Couple, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

  Suzanne Collins

  Stupid, Cat, Loss

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.386, Scholastic Inc.

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• The problem with a beautiful woman is that she makes everyone around her feel hopelessly masculine, which if you’re already male to begin with poses no particular problem. But if you’re anyone else, your whole sexual identity gets dragged into the principal’s office: “So what’s this I hear about you prancing around, masquerading as a woman?” You are answerless. You are sitting on your hands. You are praying for your breasts to grow, your hair to perk up.

  Lorrie Moore

  Beautiful, Hair, Hands

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Sep 12, 2014

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• It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms or something like that? You can't just sit there and put everybody's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love You, Thinking, What If

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• And we could all sit around and wonder and feel bad about each other and blame a lot of people for what they did or didn’t do or what they didn’t know. I don’t know. I guess there would always be someone to blame.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Blame, Wonder

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• What about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need the arms?

  Stephen Chbosky

  What If, Needs, Arms

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to make sure that the first person you kiss loves you, okay?

  Stephen Chbosky

  Love You, Kissing, Want

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is special in their own way.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Special, Way, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

  Michael Hutchence

  Stars, People, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody would like to have a good job, a good salary.....but for me that is not the all of struggle. What is important is the continuation of the struggle... the real problems of the country are not whether one is in Cabinet ...but what we do for social upliftment of the working masses of our country.

  Chris Hani

  Country, Jobs, Real

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• If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.

  Simon Sinek

  Mean, People, Greed

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.54, Penguin

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• All the perks, all the benefits and advantages you may get for the rank or position you hold, they aren’t meant for you. They are meant for the role you fill. And when you leave your role, which eventually you will, they will give the ceramic cup to the person who replaces you. Because you only ever deserved a Styrofoam cup.

  Simon Sinek

  Giving, Ceramics, Roles

  Simon Sinek (2014). “Leaders Eat Last Deluxe: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't”, p.68, Penguin

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• Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior. Your inner drives will propel you further and faster than external perks.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivation, Behavior, Force

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• My years of living the jet-set life were fun, but they weren't fulfilling. The perks and benefits were lovely, but all of the fabulous furs, fancy jewelry and fun fetes simply weren't enough to fill my soul.

  Sandra Lee

  Fun, Years, Soul

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• Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out of it? What they got out of it was misunderstanding, rejection, persecution, torture, and martyrdom. Hardly a list of perks!

  Peter Kreeft

  Life Changing, Liars, Lying

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• One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

  Josh Charles

  Athlete, Actors, Brooks

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

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• Everyone else is either asleep or having sex.  I’ve been watching cable television and eating jello.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Sex, Television, Jello

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

  Mary Lee Settle

  Writing, Choices, Joy

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• Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Clever, Groups, Minorities

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• Far too many executives have become more concerned with the four P's -- pay, perks, power and prestige -- rather than making profits for shareholders.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Business, Four, Pay

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• I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans.

  Peter Berg

  Military, Believe, Passion

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• I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'. It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it.

  Logan Lerman

  Book, Changed, Wanted

  "Q&A: Logan Lerman Saves the Day (and D'Artagnan) in 'Musketeers'" by Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2011.

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