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• I’m neither ‘pro-women’ nor ‘anti-men’. I’m just ‘Thumbs up for the six billion

  Caitlin Moran

  Men, Thumbs Up, Feminist

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.133, Random House

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• To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Flower, People, Perfect

  Muhammad Yunus (2007). “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”, p.54, PublicAffairs

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• You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?" "A long one?

  Cassandra Clare

  Long, Kind, Hours

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.1043, Simon and Schuster

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• I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

  Wallace Stevens

  Office, Nine

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.121, Univ of California Press

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wine, Glasses, Pigs

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• No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --Poirot

  Agatha Christie

  Funny, Beautiful, Drunk

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• He looked at her. 'In order to finish, I'll have to have defeated six Infected, Dusk, and Vengeous himself.' Yeah. So?' The Infected I can manage.' She frowned. 'And Vengeous? I mean, you can beat him, right?' Well,' he said, "I can certainly try. And trying is half the battle.' What's the other half?' He shrugged. 'Hitting him more times than he hits me.

  Derek Landy

  Mean, Order, Battle

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• He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sleep, Order, Law

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Rebecca”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth

  James Patterson

  Angel, Years, Mutants

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• Did you know that the average American spends six months of his or her life waiting for red lights to turn green? Six months wasted, waiting for permission to move on. Think of all the other stuff you could do with that time.” I was totally confused. “In the car?” “In your life,” he said.

  Megan McCafferty

  Confused, Moving, Thinking

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.308, Crown

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• He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wise, Hard Work, Angel

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• Counter Girl (in candy shop): You two are cute. Seriously. How long have you been going out? Sam: Six years.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Cute, Girl, Years

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• Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?

  Darren Shan

  Waiting, Should, Five

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• Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that drain the national grid. We also like truck-stop breakfasts, large moving objects, Monday night football, and the missionary position. We don't drink light beer, drive Smart cars, or admit to knowing the names of more than about five or six colors. And we don't wax our chests, ever.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Football, Monday, Smart

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Smooth Talking Stranger: Number 3 in series”, p.91, Hachette UK

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• I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh nearly two hundred pounds and am badly coordinated, except when I swim. All that borrowed meat does the writing. In the water I am beautiful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Writing, Helping Others

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• Stop…stop, that’s the next generation of fans… How dare you pass judgment on those 12-year-old girls who like vampires! They need to be encouraged because in six years they’ll be 18-year-old girls who like vampires and are into all sorts of goth-permissive and whatnot. Don’t Poo-poo it. There’s a plan, and it’s working.

  Kevin Smith

  Girl, Years, Vampire

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• What are they teaching these thugs? -Why are there so many of them? -What is the Institute for Higher Aeronautics? -How many of the are there? There are only six of us! Why? -Why is DC public transportation so weird? -Why don't we mug those Eraser goons for money more often? -Fang's Blog

  James Patterson

  Teaching, Thug, Goons

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• You know what would help this boy?" Demeter mused. "Farming." Persephone rolled her eyes. "Mother-" "Six months behind a plow. Excellent character building.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Character, Eye

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• the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Consistency, Doubt

  D H Lawrence, Daniel Defoe (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Banned Books: Lady Chatterley's Lover & Moll Flanders”, p.267, Random House

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• Here's what I hadn't realized: the mother you haven't seen for almost thirty-six years isn't your mother, she's a stranger. Sharing DNA doesn't make you fast friends. This wasn't a joyous reunion. It was just awkward.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Dna, Years

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• After our mom died, her parents (our grandparents) had this big court battle with dad. After six lawyers, two fistfights, and a near fatal attack with a spatula (don't ask), they won the right to keep Sadie with them in England.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Dad, Two

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• I think when a reader reads a whole book - which takes six to ten hours - that’s kind of a gift to the author. The gift of close, undivided attention. To who else do we listen so closely for eight straight hours? And when readers give that gift to me, I’m grateful for it.

  Po Bronson

  Book, Grateful, Thinking

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• I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any.

  Jane Austen

  Knowing, Wonder, Accomplished

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.33

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• If you'll promise not to cry, Baby, I will kiss you by-and-by—Maybe! Though you're six feet three, You will always be Nothing but a Baby, dear, to me.

  Ira Gershwin

  Baby, Kissing, Feet

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• Sweet weeping baby Jesus he has a six-pack to beat all six-packs!

  P. C. Cast

  Baby, Sweet, Jesus

  P. C. Cast (2008). “Warrior Rising”, p.112, Penguin

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