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Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

John Birmingham

Wisdom, Art, Matter

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I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac

Writing, Dark, Simple

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It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

Chath Piersath

Book, Years, Body

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Fun wouldn't be the right word... it was the most difficult, challenging, physical, extraordinary stretch I've ever had to make, in all those wild regards.

Uma Thurman

Fun, Challenges, Difficult

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I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

Chelsea Clinton

Thinking, Important, Language

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No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words.

Roddy Doyle

Stories, Might, Matter

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When a man’s heart is cold and unconcerned about religion – when his hands are never employed in doing God’s work – when his feet are not familiar with God’s ways – when his tongue is seldom or never used in prayer and praise – when his eyes are blind to the beauty of the kingdom of heaven – when his mind is full of the world, and has no room for spiritual things – when these marks are to be found in a man the word of the Bible is the right word to use about him, and that word is, ‘Dead.’

J. C. Ryle

Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.90, Ravenio Books

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Be honest, how hideous do I look?" He took another step back and pursed his lips. "That bad, huh?" I muttered. No, no Bella. Actually. . ." He seemed to be struggling for the right word. "You look. . .sexy." I laughed out loud. "Right." Very sexy, really.

Stephenie Meyer

Sexy, Struggle, Looks

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Though there was no sound, there was a change. The atmosphere, which had gone tense at my accusation, relaxed. I wondered how I knew this. I had a strange sensation that I was somehow receiving more than my five senses were giving me - almost a feeling that there was another sense, on the fringes, not quite harnessed. Intuition? That was almost the right word. As if any creature needed more than five senses.

Stephenie Meyer

Giving, Feelings, Atmosphere

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Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do." - Crave the Moon

Lori Handeland

War, Heart, Moon

Lori Handeland (2016). “Crave the Moon”, p.149, Lori Handeland

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As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

Albert Camus

Mean, Law, Tunes

Albert Camus (2006). “The fall”, Penguin Modern Classics

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Whoever said men hit harder when women are around, is right. Word for word, we beat the love out of each other.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Men, Beats, Said

Yusef Komunyakaa (2013). “Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems”, p.18, Wesleyan University Press

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Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.

Nicholas Sparks

Self, Giving, My Best Friend

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I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

David Levithan

Simple, Night, Forgotten

David Levithan (2015). “Marly's Ghost”, p.46, Egmont UK

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But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned.

Terry Pratchett

Hate, Force, Attraction

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The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. . . . Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into you as life, place yourself in the full center of that flood, then you are without effort impelled to truth, to right, and a perfect contentment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life, Perfect, Effort

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.139

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Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Powerful, Fall, Self

Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill

War, Heart, Race

Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

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They went into stores to get food to stay alive. Looting isn't the right word. I call it survival.

Russel Honore

Stay Positive, Survival, Alive

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One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Edward Abbey

Thousand, One Word, Ifs

Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.11, Macmillan

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Of what help is anyone who can only be approached with the right words?

Elizabeth Bibesco

Helping

Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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On matters beyond his ken a gentleman speaks with caution. If names are not right, words are misused. When words are misused, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, courtesy and music droop, law and justice fail. And when law and justice fail them, a people can move neither hand nor foot. So a gentleman must be ready to put names in speech, to put words into deeds. A gentleman is nowise careless of words.

Confucius

Moving, Hands, Law

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It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.

Peter Elbow

Thinking, Worry, Trying

Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Joseph Conrad

Moving, Giving, Imagination

Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.

Sally Schneider

Vegetables, Balance, Fruit

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