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• I went to watch Coldplay in Florida and saw Chris Martin before they went on. He sang 'What Makes You Beautiful' before the chorus of 'Yellow' kicked in. That was so strange because he's an inspiration for me. I think he's so good, he's sick... he's a really nice guy too.

  Harry Styles

  Beautiful, Nice, Inspiration

  "Yum Direction! Boyband reveal secret recipe for success - bucket-loads of fast food" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. November 19, 2012.

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• When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mother, Virginia, Firsts

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• If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Queens, Would Be, Queen Elizabeth

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• When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hypocrisy, Parent, Adults

  "The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2011.

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• The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Play, Comedy

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and stuff. And so you get these letters in the mail that just, they are crazy, they are just like, yes, well our son is dealing with the same thing and we saw you on TV and I mean it is such a cool thing to inspire and kind of give hope.

  Shaun White

  Crazy, Heart, Mean

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• I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

  Amy Winehouse

  Pictures Of Myself, Hospitals

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• A lot of the girls were awful, very catty. It was a competitive environment that I didn't like. You have no idea of the anorexia I saw around me.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Ideas, Anorexia

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• One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Nice, Struggle

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• From the corner of his eye, Eragon saw Orik hewing Urgal necks with mighty blows of his ax.

  Christopher Paolini

  Eye, Blow, Necks

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.566, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Mother, Art, Children

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• Rain falls on everyone, lightning strikes some. What cannot be changed is best forgotten. God made the world, and He saw that it was good. Not fair. Not happy. Not perfect. Good.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Rain, Fall, Perfect

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• On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed. Inside, he was in a world of hurt. He saw black flashes before his eyes. He saw himself falling through the air. He knew what he was turning into. He was turning into the worst kind of human on the planet: an old bitter dork. Saw himself at the Game Room, picking through the miniatures for the rest of his life. He didn't want this future but he couldn't see how it could be avoided, couldn't figure his way out of it. Fukú.

  Junot Diaz

  Hurt, Fall, Tired

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.268, Faber & Faber

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• For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

  Alice Munro

  Makeup, Forgiving, Relief

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the horizons so distant, that they make a person feel small, and as if he should remain silent." The boy understood intuitively what he meant, even without ever having set foot in the desert before. Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.

  Paulo Coelho

  Boys, Night, Fire

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• From there we came outside and saw the stars

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars

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• I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn’t any God at all and that physics was more interesting anyway. The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that’s all.

  Philip Pullman

  Christian, Powerful, Mistake

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood. In nothing was my ideal lowered, or dimmed, or grown less precious; I only saw it too plainly, to set myself for a moment beside it.

  George MacDonald

  Hero, Fall, Pride

  "MacDonalds’ Fairy-Tale Treasure Chest".

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• Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Fall, Snow

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• All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Brother, Lying, Eye

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• You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Add, Legs

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.191, A&C Black

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• His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Heart, Dark, Golden Days

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• Nobodys life ever goes according to plan. So why do we keep on planning? Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become. And fail. I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

  Orson Scott Card

  Missing, Trying, Who We Are

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• How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Regret, Skins, Crime

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.412, Faber & Faber

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• When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?

  James Gleick

  Firsts, Gulliver, Watches

  James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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