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• When I was growing up, I did not exercise at all. I was raised in the French Quarter in New Orleans. If I saw someone running, I would call the police because I thought they stole something on Royal Street.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Growing Up, Exercise

  "Richard Simmons On The Best Advice He Ever Got". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: "Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.

  Hermann Hesse

  Eye, Men, Blue

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Remember that every government service, every offer of government - financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom... In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such service.

  Ronald Reagan

  Loss, Government, Voice

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• Love is rather impotent and pitiful: My father must have told me a million times how much he loved me, but that emotion - assuming it was even real - hardly had the strength to counter the many other acts of wrong he committed against me. Contrary to romance novels and the love-conquers-all mentality that even those of us who grow up in an era of divorce are - in response to some atavistic instinct - still raised to believe, love is always a product and a victim of circumstances. It is fragile and small.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Growing Up, Father, Real

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• I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Simple, Eyebrows

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• And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand.

  Cassandra Clare

  Smell, Blood, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.956, Simon and Schuster

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• And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.

  John Steinbeck

  Prayer, Men, Past

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• In the end, I wonder if the true movement of the world might not be a voice raised in song.

  Muriel Barbery

  Song, Voice, Movement

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Sunday, Ideas

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.36, Random House

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• After all, a woman didn't leave much behind in the world to show she'd been there. Even the children she bore and raised got their father's name. But her quilts, now that was something she could pass on.

  Sandra Dallas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Quilts

  Sandra Dallas (2010). “Prayers for Sale”, p.68, Macmillan

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• His past was fairly blameless; few men could read the rolls of their life with less apprehension; yet he was humbled to the dust by the many ill things he had done, and raised up again into sober and fearful gratitude by the many he had come so near to doing, yet avoided.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Gratitude, Past, Men

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Markheim, Jekyll And The Merry Men”, p.242, Canongate Books

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• Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Talking, Rooms

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• Some magicians are rich, some are famous, some are stupidly good-looking.' Jamie gave Nick a rather complicated look. Nick raised an eyebrow. 'Some of us manage to be stupidly good-looking on our own.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eyebrows, Looks, Complicated

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2009). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Men, Sky, Mad

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.38, Library of America

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• They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Boys, Mirrors, Papa

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.111, Vintage

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• Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?" Simon raised his eyebrow in response. "Well, aside from mine of course," Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Eyebrows, Drunk

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• In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Morning, Sleep

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• Without a twich of exertion, Redd sealed his lips with glue. "Who wants to kill him?" The Cat raised a paw. Siren and Alistare raised their hands. "Mmmmmm mmm mmm," protested Jack.

  Frank Beddor

  Cat, Hands, Glue

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• Hold still," my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he burned away the strings he'd raised the mast with and set the clipper ship free on its blue putty sea. And I would wait for him, recognizing the tension of that moment when the world in the bottle depended, solely, on me.

  Alice Sebold

  Father, Blue, Sea

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.

  Joyce Meyer

  Complaining, Praise

  Joyce Meyer (1999). “Life in the Word Journal”, Harrison House

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• Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two. What scares you?" Alec thought for a moment. "Spiders," he said. Clary turned to Luke. "Have you got a spider anywhere?" Luke looked exasperated. "Why would I have a spider? Do I look like someone who would collect them?" No offense," Jace said, "but you kind of do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Two, Scare

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.679, Simon and Schuster

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• You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

  Ray Bradbury

  College, Everyday, Library

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• Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my whole family.' Magnus raised his hands, his fingers shining with individual azure flames. They lit his grin with a fiery blue glow. 'It's a deal.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blue, Flames, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1103, Simon and Schuster

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• Raised by two mothers...wow, most of us barely survive one

  Woody Allen

  Mother, Two, Wow

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