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I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby.

Erma Bombeck

Baby, Light, Two

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1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!

Joan Crawford

Fashion, Good Friend, Play

Joan Crawford (2017). “My Way of Life”, p.79, Graymalkin Media

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On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

Charles Dickens

Pain, Hands, Years

Charles Dickens (1841). “Master Humphrey's Clock”, p.121

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Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who thinks like she does should be locked up out of harm's way.

Louise Rennison

Thinking, Doe, Way

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Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

Sophie Kinsella

Real, People, Mets

"Shopaholic Abroad". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2001.

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Lord Macon deposited his wife into a chair and then knelt next to her, clutching one of her hands. "Tell me truthfully - how are you feeling?" Alexia took a breath. "Truthfully? I sometimes wonder if I, like Madame Lefoux, should affect masculine dress." "Gracious me, why?" "You mean aside from the issue of greater mobility?" "My love, I don't think that's currently the result of your clothing." "Indeed, I mean after the baby." "I still don't see why should want to." "Oh no? I dare you to spend a week in a corset, long skirts and a bustle." "How do you know I haven't?

Gail Carriger

Baby, Mean, Thinking

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As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

Susan Cain

Party, Boys, Long

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Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Caitlín R. Kiernan

Communication, Mean, Use

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I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

Daniel Handler

Smart, Stupid, Thinking

Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.196, Egmont UK

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If someone should ask, "how should an Opposition function?" the best answer would be, "in the manner of a traditional mother-in-law who watches the performance of household work by a daughter-in-law and follows her about with her comments.

R.K. Narayan

Daughter, Mother, Law

R. K. Narayan (1988). “A Writer's Nightmare: Selected Essays, 1958-1988”, p.88, Penguin Books India

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Now we just need to find someone who is close to the king but is really a spy for Mydogg." "That should be easy. I could probably shoot an arrow out the window and hit one.

Kristin Cashore

Kings, Arrows, Spy

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Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which is needed, if the liturgical action is to reflect its innate splendour.

Pope Benedict XVI

Essentials, Elements, Care

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Harry Potter is one boy in a long line of mythical heroes who have reminded the human race that we are so much more than we think we are, so much more powerful than we seem to know. Jesus said that we would someday do even greater works than He; should we not take Him at His word? And should not 'someday' be today? It's time for us to start working miracles, if indeed we have the capacity within us to do so.

Marianne Williamson

Jesus, Powerful, Hero

Marianne Williamson (2004). “Everyday Grace: Having Hope, Finding Forgiveness, and Making Miracles”, p.11, Penguin

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There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

Nicholas Sparks

Love You, Like Love, Trying

Twitter post from Aug 27, 2012

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Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. "After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sweet, Eye, Gentleman

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There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?

Jeanette Winterson

Beautiful, Determination, Loving Someone

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You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

Malcolm Gladwell

Social, Manage

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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

Andre Gide

Summer, Flower, Lasts

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You should not bring more items and hurdles to the obstacle course.

Anne Lamott

Obstacles, Hurdle, Courses

Anne Lamott, Sam Lamott (2012). “Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son”, p.91, Penguin

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Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

Suzanne Collins

Air, Color, Wings

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You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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You should find him because he loves you.

Ann Brashares

Love You

Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.36, Penguin

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Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.

Franny Billingsley

Things To Do

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... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

Jose Saramago

Heart, Enough, Persons

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Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.

Sophie Kinsella

Phones, Law, Tire

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