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• Max?” said the Gasman. “Are those, um, rats?” Lovely. “Yes, those do appear to be either rats or mice on steroids,” I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Wall, Lovely

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• Hello, hello.” Magnus swept toward them..."Alec, my darling, Clary. And rat-boy." He swept a bow toward Simon, who looked annoyed. "To what do I owe the pleasure?" "We came to see Jace," Clary said. "Is he all right?" "I don’t know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?" "What –," Alec began, and broke off as Magnus laughed. "That’s not funny." "You’re so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can’t find anything. He’s compulsive.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Moving, Boys

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• Messin with me, is like wearing cheese underwear down rat alley. Ollie Chandler in Deception

  Randy Alcorn

  Deception, Underwear, Cheese

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• I've met an attractive weasel or two in my time. He looks more like a rat." -pg.170-

  Cassandra Clare

  Two, Looks, Attractive

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• Clary wondered how many boyfriends she'd turned into rats by accident. -Clary to Isabelle, pg.245-

  Cassandra Clare

  Accidents

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• Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

  Alice Neel

  Country, New York, Race

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• Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

  Mike Tyson

  Winning, Race, America

  2000 In The Times, Dec 26.

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• In brief, we do more research on men in prison, men in the military, and men in general than we do on women for the same reason we do more research on rats than we do on humans.

  Warren Farrell

  Military, Men, Research

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• "We, Seth, Emperor of Azania, Chief of Chiefs of Sakuyu, Lord of Wanda and Tyrant of the Seas, Bachelor of the Arts of Oxford University, being in this the twenty-fourth year of our life, summoned by the wisdom of Almighty God and the unanimous voice of our people to the throne of our ancestors, do hereby proclaim..." Seth paused in his dictation and gazed out across the harbour where in the fresh breeze of early morning the last dhow was setting sail for the open sea. "Rats," he said; "stinking curs. They are all running away."

  Evelyn Waugh

  Running, Art, Morning

  "Black Mischief". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1932.

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• I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

  Donald Freed

  Dream, Failure, Mean

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• I'm not going to go home and drink rat urine.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Home, Nba

  "O'Neal reacts strongly to Van Gundy flop comment" by Tim Reynolds, www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2009.

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• The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.

  Lori Foster

  Hero, Two, Construction Workers

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• Tim Kaine is your friend's dad who catches you smoking weed at a sleepover and doesn't rat you out but talks to you about brain development.

  Tim Kaine

  Weed, Dad, Smoking

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Gym Rats, Way

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• All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Memories, Emotional, Long

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• To find Margo Roth Spiegelman, you must become Margo Roth Spiegelman. And I had done many of the things she might have done: I had engineered a most unlikely prom coupling. I had quieted the hounds of caste warfare. I had come to feel comfortable inside the rat-infested haunted house where she did her best thinking. I had seen. I had listened. But I could not yet become the wounded person.

  John Green

  Thinking, House, Warfare

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.226, A&C Black

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• It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Different, Sparrows, Made

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Just a rat, she repeated to herself. After all, there were rats in the palace. Human and otherwise. Could be worse.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Palaces, Humans

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• No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

  Megan Abbott

  Age, Tilt, Seven

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even know? Can anyone love filth and squalor? Or lice and rats? Who can love aching weariness, and carry on working, in spite of it? One cannot love these things. One can only love God, and through His grace come to love His people.

  Jennifer Worth

  People, Grace, Ignorant

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• Besides, thinking kind thoughts about Valek could be extremely dangerous. I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Cat, Fighting, Thinking

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.79, Harlequin

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• Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.

  Rick Riordan

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• I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life.

  Jonathan Swift

  War, Fire, Water

  Jonathan Swift (1841). “The works of Jonathan Swift, containing papers not hitherto publ. With memoir of the author by T. Roscoe”, p.98

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• I've debated many economists who claim to specialize in risk and probability: when one takes them slightly outside their narrow focus, but within the discipline of probability, they fall apart, with the disconsolate face of a gym rat in front of a gangster hit man.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Fall, Men, Gym Rats

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.245, Random House

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• Mickey Cohen: New York, its like being a rat in a maze, everyone living on top of each other, but out here, I can breathe. I love Los Angeles.

  Mickey Cohen

  New York, Mazes, Breathe

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