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• Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.

  Christine Feehan

  Gun, Hands, Way

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• You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

  Alan Cumming

  Carpe Diem, Should, Carpe

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• I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

  James Lee Burke

  Girl, Baseball, Lonely

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• At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that 'news' is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different--in the crunch his life depends on his agility, alertness, and personal resourcefulness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Running, People, Safety

  "The Number of the Beast". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, p. 134, 1980.

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• People in any organization, including bureaucrats and politicians, are always attached to the obsolete; the obsolescent; the things that should have worked but didn't; the things that once were productive and no longer are.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Organization, People

  "Post-Capitalist Society".

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• It's hopeless! Tomorrow there'll be even more books I should have read than there are today.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Book, Today, Tomorrow

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• I should have told her at the time. I could have taken a deep breath, looked away, and forced myself to say it.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Taken, Deep Breath, Breaths

  Banana Yoshimoto, Russell F. Wasden (1998). “Amrita”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Wedding, Trying, Done

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jun 01, 2012

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• Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Parenting, Reality

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.54, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dog, Cat, Two

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• In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

  Betty Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Advice

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Today I will masterbate! Okay, that was a mistake. I should have written "Today I will masterbate--if I want to!

  Al Franken

  Mistake, Want, Today

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• I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Thinking, Intellectual, Fancy

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting.

  Jane Austen

  Believe, Long Ago, Giving

  Jane Austen (2011). “Persuasion: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.46, Penguin

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• I learned to make things not matter, to put a seal on my hopes and place them on a high shelf, out of reach. And by telling myself that there was nothing inside those hopes anyway, I avoided the wounds of deep disappointment. The pain was no worse than the quick sting of a booster shot. And yet thinking about this makes me ache again. How is it that as a child I knew I should have been loved more? Is everyone born with a bottomless emotional resevoir?

  Amy Tan

  Children, Pain, Disappointment

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.15, Penguin

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• You should have seen the look on your skull.

  Rich Burlew

  Skulls, Goggles, Looks

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• [Robin Stewart] was your man. True for you, you had withdrawn the crutch from his sight, but still it should have been there in your hand, ready for him. For you are a leader-don't you know it? I don't, surely, need to tell you?-And that is what leadership means. It means fortifying the fainthearted and giving them the two sides of your tongue while you are at it. It means suffering weak love and schooling it till it matures. It means giving up you privicies, your follies and your leasure. It means you can love nothing and no one too much, or you are no longer a leader, you are led.

  Dorothy Dunnett

  Giving Up, Mean, Men

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• Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mom, Wall, Two

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Apr 23, 2015

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• Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Intelligent

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.416, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like to think of fire held in a man's hand. Fire, a dangerous force, tamed at his fingertips. I often wonder about the hours when a man sits alone, watching the smoke of a cigarette, thinking. I wonder what great things have come from such hours. When a man thinks, there is a spot of fire alive in his mind--and it is proper that he should have the burning point of a cigarette as his one expression.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.998, Penguin

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• Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, School, Peaceful

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• It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

  Yann Martel

  Letting Go, Heart, Important

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.

  Chinua Achebe

  Numbers, Stressed, Church

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• I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Eye, Blue

  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.455, Simon and Schuster

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• Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Looks

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.

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