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• He stood and went to read my pin as I approached. “America, is it?” he said, a smile playing on his lips. “Yes, it is. And I know I’ve heard your name before, but could you remind me?

  Kiera Cass

  Names, America, Lips

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.57, HarperCollins

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• In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Order, Needs

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• So I guess that the next time I make a date with a concussed guy, I should pin a note to his collar so he doesn't forget." "Good plan." His hand was next to hers on the table. He let his thumb glide over her fingers, a small, almost casual touch that sent a shudder through her. "I'm sorry I forgot our date.

  Jill Shalvis

  Sorry, Hands, Guy

  FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from May 10, 2013

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• It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

  Kristin Cashore

  Depressing, Lying, Unhappy

  Kristin Cashore (2012). “Bitterblue”, p.73, Penguin

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• Everything you’ve told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you’ve generated personal failure, because you can’t do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can’t be pin-pointed.

  David Allen

  Stress, Thinking, Two

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• Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Years, Skins, Trying

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• But her name was Esmé. She was a girl with long, long, red, red hair. Her mother braided it. The flower shop boy stood behind her and held it in his hand. Her mother cut it off and hung it from a chandelier. She was Queen. Mazishta. Her hair was black and her handmaidens dressed it with pearls and silver pins. Her flesh was golden like the desert. Her flesh was pale like cream. Her eyes were blue. Brown.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Mother, Queens

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

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• When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Stars, Angel, Night

  Robin Jones Gunn (1998). “Yours Forever”, Bethany House Pub

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• We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.

  Sándor Márai

  Vanity, Who We Are, Life Is

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• She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled with the pin inside the lock until it clicked and the door opened. "How did you learn to do that?" asked Hugo. "Books," answered Isabelle.

  Brian Selznick

  Book, Doors, Pockets

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.95, Scholastic

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• He wanted to tell her that everything he had done he had done because he was broken, because watching her die had destroyed him, but there was no way to say it that didn’t sound like he was trying to pin the blame outside himself

  Laini Taylor

  Broken, Trying, Sound

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• This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

  Pete Wentz

  Hands, Wish, Monsters

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• You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist

  Lauren Oliver

  Trying, Arms, Way

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• A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

  Thelonious Monk

  Music, Imagination, World

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• He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound.

  Samuel Pepys

  Pounds, Classroom, Stoops

  Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341

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• But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you're looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

  Ben Crenshaw

  Feet, Missing, Balls

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• There's a side of my personality that goes completely against the educated & serious woman. The side who wants to be a pin-up girl in garages all across America!

  Mira Sorvino

  Girl, America, Personality

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• I’m a bowling pin, even when I fall I’ll always stand back up.

  Jay Park

  Fall, Bowling

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• If you look hard enough, you can find race issues and racism in everything. I know people who say, 'See, I don't play pool 'cuz that's where the white ball chase the black ball off the table. So I prefer bowling, where the big black ball knock down the white pins with the red necks.'

  Chi McBride

  Issues, Race, Play

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• A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point.

  George D. Prentice

  Deals

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• Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

  Anne Spencer

  Guilt, Innocence, Figs

  Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”

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• The whole idea of punk rock is that you're dressing yourself in a crazy leather jacket with safety pins and a Mohawk. The idea of being the rebel is a boring societal idea. It's such a type. And that's what I was, without knowing it.

  Michael Ian Black

  Crazy, Leather Jackets, Safety Pins

  "The Best-Laid Plans Of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.

  Toni Morrison

  War, Arrogance, Slavery

  Nobel Prize for Literature Lecture, delivered 7 December 1993

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• 'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.

  Patrick Stump

  Mean, Safety Pins, Mohawks

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• We wore our safety pins on the inside of our clothes.

  Tina Weymouth

  Safety Pins, Clothes, Safety

  "Coming at rock from odd angles" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2003.

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