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• That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Two, People

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.65, Dial Press

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• Maitre D' : I appreciate your understanding. Ferris: Don't think twice. It's understanding that makes it possible for people like us to tolerate a person like yourself.

  John Hughes

  Thinking, People, Appreciate

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• But feelings, no matter how strong or “ugly,” are not a part of who you are. They are the radio stations your mind listens to if you don’t give it something better to do. Feelings are fluid and dynamic; they change frequently. Feelings are something you HAVE, not something you ARE. Like physical beauty, a cold sore, or an opinion. Admitting you feel rage or terrible pain or regret or some old, rotten blame does not mean these feelings are part of who you are as a person. What these feelings mean is, you have to change your thinking to be free of them.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Strong, Regret, Pain

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

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• How could I leave Prim, who is the only person in the world I’m certain I love?

  Suzanne Collins

  World, Certain

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.12, Scholastic Inc.

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• You are talking crazy-person talk. Put your words in word places please.

  Joss Whedon

  Crazy, Talking, Please

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• I got the sense that he was the kind of person who couldn't hold anger for more than a few minutes, because it just wasn't in him. It could never grow into resentment or bitterness, and I knew then that he was the kind of man who would be married forever. And I decided then and there that I should be the one to marry him.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Forever, Would Be

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Scary, Balance, Life Is

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• Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

  Guillaume Musso

  Hurt, Real, World

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• Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse

  Carl Sagan

  War, Thinking, Nuclear

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.349, Ballantine Books

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• Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that

  Randy Pausch

  Rare Person, Waiting, Reason

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• I am my own person caoable of making my own decisions and choosing powerfully how i live. I appreciate and respect what others have to say but ultimately I choose how I live my life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Appreciate, Decision, Living My Life

  Miranda Kerr (2010). “Treasure Yourself”, p.173, Hay House, Inc

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• The Soul of the World is nourished by people's happiness. And also by unhappiness, envy, and jealousy. To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. All things are one.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, People, Envy

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so deep in our genes that we can never get it out? Territoriality.

  Orson Scott Card

  Trying, Genes, Buried

  Orson Scott Card (2011). “Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.

  Robert James Waller

  Thinking, Here I Am, Two

  Robert James Waller (2013). “The Bridges Of Madison County”, p.23, Random House

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• All that matters in life," the grey man went on, "is to climb the ladder of success, amount to something, own things. When a person climbs higher than the rest, amounts to more, owns more things, everything else comes automatically: friendship, love, respect, et cetera..." "Isn't there anyone who loves you?" Momo whispered.

  Michael Ende

  Love You, Men, Friendship Love

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• Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Numbers, Heat

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.195, Penguin

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• What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Heart, Knowing

  "Fictional character: Elinor Dashwood". "Sense and Sensibility", 1995.

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• A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope. Every time I see these feelings in someone else's face, it weighs me down.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Doubt, Faces

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Heart, Messages

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• Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth for the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there are three lives before you: His life, Her Life, and Your life together.

  Ann Aguirre

  Loneliness, Rain, Two

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• What kind of dining set defines me as a person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dining, Kind

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• If a person has grasped the meaning of God's grace in his heart, he will do justice. If he doesn't live justly, then he may say with his lips that he is grateful for God's grace, but in his heart he is far from him. If he doesn't care about the poor, it reveals that at best he doesn't understand the grace he has experienced, and at worst he has not really encountered the saving mercy of God. Grace should make you just.

  Timothy Keller

  Grateful, Heart, Mercy Of God

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• The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

  Michelle Sagara

  Pain, Looks, Sometimes

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• Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealousy, Pain, Men

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Spectator”, p.356

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