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• I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely terrible manners of the motorists. Other New Englanders refer to Massachusetts drivers as "Massholes.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Hate, Airports, Squares

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• Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

  Yann Martel

  Might, Losing, Enough

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.211, Canongate Books

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• Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorrow, Scar, Persons

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.723, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Moving, Reading, Effort

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “The Luzhin Defense”, p.7, Penguin UK

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• The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

  John Moody

  Lakes, United States, Borders

  John Moody (1921). “The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States”

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• I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

  Moby

  Teaching, College, Community

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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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• I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Love You, Want, Deserve

  Dashiell Hammett (2002). “Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammett, 1921-1960”, Counterpoint Press

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• Spare no expense to save money on this one.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Book, Beer, Drink

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• It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

  Bob Geldof

  Simple, People, Politics

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• Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.15, Beacon Press

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• Hold your pen and spare your voice.

  Dorothy Parker

  Voice, Pens

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• To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness

  Erich Fromm

  Grief, Grieving, Mourning

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• I don't have spare time.

  Bryan Cranston

  Spare Time

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• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Cutting, Civilization

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Luxury, Giving

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• I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

  Jane Austen

  Laughing, World, Darcy

  Jane Austen (2014). “Jane Austen Collection: illustrated - 6 eBooks and 140+ illustrations”, p.549, Ageless Reads

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• Yeah, well," I say, "I left Abnegation because I wasn't selfless enough, no matter how hard I tried to be." "That's not entirely true." He smiles at me. "That girl who let someone throw knives at her to spare a friend, who hit my dad with a belt to protect me-that selfless girl, that's not you?"... "You've been paying close attention, haven't you?" "I like to observe people/" "Maybe you were cut out for Candor, Four, because you're a terrible liar.

  Veronica Roth

  Girl, Dad, Liars

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• True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Knowing, True Courage

  "Fictional character: Gandalf". "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", www.imdb.com. 2012.

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• What do--" Tobias's voice. Tobias! "Oh my God. Oh--" "Spare me your blubbering, okay? Peter says. "She's not dead; she's just paralyzed. It'll only last for about a minute. Now get ready to run." I don't understand. How does Peter know? "Let me carry her," Tobias says. "No. You're a better shot than I am. Take my gun. I'll carry her.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Gun, Voice

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• Of course, if I eat all of him, if I spare his brain, he'll rise up and follow me back to the airport, and that might make feel better. I'll introduce him to everyone, and maybe we'll stand around and groan for a while. It's hard to say what 'friends' are any more, but that might be close.

  Isaac Marion

  Feel Better, Airports, Brain

  Isaac Marion (2016). “Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Spring, Love Is

  Saint Augustine of Hippo, Aeterna Press “Homilies on the Gospel According to Saint John: And His First Epistle”, Aeterna Press

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

  Paul Tournier

  Doubt, Suffering, Mystery

  Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

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