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• From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Baby, Ebay

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.183, St. Martin's Press

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• Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Garden, Clothes

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The problem is this: in order to make money- lots of money- we don't need flawless literary masterpieces. What we need is mediocre rubbish, trash suitable for mass consumption. More and more, bigger and bigger blockbusters of less and less significance. What counts is the paper we sell, not the words that are printed on it.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Needs, Paper

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• You’re strong enough to stand up to anyone. Smart enough to do anything you want. Don’t sell yourself short; don’t be afraid of what your new life is going to offer. Because I know—if there’s any justice in this world, good things are going to come to you. Better things than you ever dreamed.

  Claudia Gray

  Strong, Smart, Justice

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• And I told you before, I'll sell you any of the thoroughbreds.” “I didn't make any of those thoroughbreds. I didn't make them what they are.” “You made all of them what they are.” I don't look at him. “None of them made me who I am.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Who I Am, Looks, Made

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races”, p.208, Scholastic UK

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• Sell stupid somewhere else--there's nothing better than that face!

  Stephenie Meyer

  Stupid, Somewhere Else, Faces

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• The Corporation would like to apologize for the preceding pages. Of course, it's not all right for girls to behave this way. Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Beer, Expression

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.208, Scholastic Inc.

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• HAZEL: "THERE," she said.The official building on their left had a single word etched on the glass doors: AMAZON. "oh," Frank said."Uh, no, Hazel. That's a modern thing. They're a company, Right? they sell stuff on the internet. They're not actually Amazons." "Unless..." Percy walked through the doors.

  Rick Riordan

  Glasses, Doors, Amazon

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• You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Vacation, Cake, Waikiki

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• My dad is adorably optimistic, positive, pie-in-the-sky. He thinks every new song I write is my best. He sells T-shirts at my merchandise stands and hands out guitar picks to fans.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Dad, Writing

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• The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding and respectable people dearly love to read ill of others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, People, Paper

  Margaret Atwood (1997). “Alias Grace”

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• That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.

  Jodi Picoult

  Running, Jobs, Years

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• What was I supposed to be, growing in your womb -- assuming it was even in our womb that I was conceived? A seed of hope? A ticket purchased to ferry you from the dark? A patch for that hole you carried in your heart? If so, then I wasn't enough. I wasn't nearly enough. I was no balm to your pain, only another dead end, another burden, and you must have seen that early on. You must have realized it. But what could you do? You couldn't go down to the pawnshop and sell me.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Heart, Dark

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• Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.

  Lauren Graham

  Writing, Actors, Should

  Lauren Graham (2013). “Someday, Someday, Maybe: A Novel”, p.100, Ballantine Books

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• Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don’t just brainstorm; praystorm.

  Mark Batterson

  Prayer, Home, Writing

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• I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false. But this knowledge does not outweigh the fact that my class, the working class, is exploited, driven, fought back with the weapon of starvation, with guns and with venal courts whenever they strike for conditions more human, more civilized for their children, and for their children's children.

  Mother Jones

  Children, Knowledge, Gun

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• To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Soul, Doe

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.551, Penguin

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

  Roberta Flack

  Inspiring, Voice, People

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• They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think.

  Ellis Peters

  Men, Thinking, Reflection

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Heretic's Apprentice”, p.129, Head of Zeus

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• Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

  Leon Leonwood Bean

  Business, Service Culture, Profit

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• The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

  Randy Pausch

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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• I've made hundreds of legendary records that people talk about that didn't sell.

  Jerry Wexler

  People, Records, Legendary

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• Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Humor, Deep Thought, Your Presence

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• I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

  Terry Teachout

  Graduation, People, Luck

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• He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies!

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Jesus, Night, Swear To God

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