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• I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Bird, Understanding

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.178, GENERAL PRESS

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• Better than a meaningless story of a thousand words is a single word of deep meaning which, when heard, produces peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Stories, Deep Meaning

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• The truest communication with God is absolute, total silence; there is not a single word in existence that can convey this communication.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Communication, Silence, Existence

  Bernadette Roberts (1985). “The Path to No-Self: Life at the Center”, p.47, SUNY Press

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• Customers want brands that are narrow in scope and distinguishable by a single word, the shorter the better.

  Al Ries

  Business, Want, Scope

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• The ultimate pitch for an era of short attention spans begins with a single word - and doesn't go any further.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Communication, Attention, Eras

  Daniel H. Pink (2012). “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others”, p.108, Penguin

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• I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Single, Real, Adventure

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.261, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.

  Walt Whitman

  Happy, Talking, Confusion

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

  Galileo Galilei

  Math, Circles, Law

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• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Writing, Eight, Months

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• When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff.

  Hilary Duff

  Kids, Night, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

  Teresa of Avila

  Prayer, Father, Heart

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• She says people ought to learn to live like them, with the body abandoned in a wilderness, and in the mind the memory of a single kiss, a single word, a single look to stand for a whole love.

  Marguerite Duras

  Memories, Kissing, People

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• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• Think of a single word. We'll use soul as our example. How do you define soul? Is it the same definition I use? Can it ever be it? My soul is not your soul. Our souls, our definitions, are shaped by the singular and cumulative experiences in our lives, the emotional weight we attach to a concept forever locked in the space behind our own eyes.

  Chris Kluwe

  Eye, Emotional, Thinking

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• We can actually put the essence of neurosis in a single word: blaming - or damning.

  Albert Ellis

  Essence, Neurosis, Blame

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• The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice.

  Ashley Montagu

  Ice

  Ashley Montagu (1969). “Man, His First Two Million Years: A Brief Introduction to Anthropology”, Greenwood

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• My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

  Clarice Lispector

  Giving, Truthful, Interiors

  "The Hour of the Star". Book by Clarice Lispector, 1977.

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• Words. I'm surrounding by thousands of words. Maybe millions...Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs...I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Song, Clever, Expression

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• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Mean, Hypocrisy

  "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

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• One single word and I swear I’ll rip your tongue out. (Zephyra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Rip, Tongue, Swear

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.1553, Macmillan

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• He is clearly bookish. I did not follow a single word of their conversation at dinner last night, not one jot of it. He must be bookish.

  Gail Carriger

  Night, Dinner, Lasts

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• What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Weight, Deeds

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• My whole life, I never spoke a single-word.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Spokes, Whole Life

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