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• Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• Coldplay songs deliver an amorphous, irrefutable interpretation of how being in love is supposed to feel, and people find themselves wanting that feeling for real. They want men to adore them like Lloyd Dobler would, and they want women to think like Aimee Mann, and they expect all their arguments to sound like Sam Malone and Diane Chambers. They think everything will work out perfectly in the end (just like it did for Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones and Nick Hornby's Rob Fleming), and they don't stop believing because Journey's Steve Perry insists we should never do that.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Song, Real, Believe

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

  Ewan McGregor

  Good Movie, Hollywood

  "Naked talent" by John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

  David Levithan

  Knowing Who You Are, Trying, No Excuses

  David Levithan (2009). “Boy Meets Boy”, p.147, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I want to suffer so that I may love.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Suffering, May

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?

  Susane Colasanti

  Smart, Mean, Who I Am

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• Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time, especially when we're standing close. Beneath the expensive clothes, unplaceable accent, and cultured veneer, there's something that never crawled all the way out of the swamp. It didn't want to. It likes it there.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Clothes, Swamps, Way

  Karen Marie Moning (2007). “Bloodfever: Fever Series”, p.19, Delacorte Press

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• I’ve stripped my life down,” he told me. “I don’t need much. I have all the company I want to keep right in here.” He shot himself in the head with his fingers. “People don’t understand about the need to live simply. They make appointments all day. They even schedule their own deaths. The first time they’ll have freedom to really be themselves is when they no longer exist. But up here, there’s nothing but me and the sky. A million billion stars.

  Holly Black

  Stars, Sky, People

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• The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother. The Westermarck theory has out-Freuded Freud.

  Steven Pinker

  Mother, Sleep, Boys

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.460, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

  Terry McMillan

  Killing, Wanting To Die, Dies

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.87, Penguin

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• I want some time without you organic life forms.

  Rick Riordan

  Form, Without You, Organic Life

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• Marc didn’t want to win by default. He wanted to win for real. Forever.

  Rachel Vincent

  Real, Winning, Forever

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Alpha”, p.39, MIRA

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• I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

  Terry McMillan

  Trying, Naked, Looks

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.11, Penguin

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• People are always trying to tell you how they feel. Some of them say it outright, and some of them, they tell you with their actions. And you have to listen. I don't know what will happen with your lady friend. I think she's a nice person, and I hope you get what you want. But do me a favor: Listen, and don't ignore what you hear.

  Justin Halpern

  Nice, Thinking, Always Trying

  "Sh*t My Dad Says". Book by Justin Halpern, May 4, 2010.

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• The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.

  Ernst Junger

  Law, Trying, Criminals

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• The gods throw the dice and they don't ask whether we want to be in the game or not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Funny Life, Games, Insecurity

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1994.

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• But sometimes you gotta do stuff you don’t want to do.

  P. C. Cast

  Stuff, Sometimes

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Burned: A House of Night Novel”, p.281, Macmillan

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• Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

  Rick Riordan

  Fire, Dragons, Size

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• We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.

  Alain de Botton

  Powerful, Distance, Views

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• Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Business, Winning, Games

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes”

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• Don't tell me what I'm doing; I don't want to know.

  Federico Fellini

  Ignorance, Willful Ignorance, Knows

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• I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Simple, People, Facts

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.366, A&C Black

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• Waitress!" Hedge called. "Six double espressos, and whatever these guys want. Put it on the girl's tab.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Espresso, Guy

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• He's got the whole bad-boy-in-need-of-redemption thing going on, but the catch is, most bad boys don't want redemption. They like being bad. They like the power they get from striking fear and panic into the hearts of mothers everywhere

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mother, Heart, Boys

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• I was so worried that you wouldn’t want to know me once you found out.” I signed, relief flooding through me. “Are you kidding me?” Xavier reached out and curled a lock of my hair around his finger. “Surely I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world.” “How do you figure that?” “Isn’t it obvious? I’ve got my own little piece of Heaven right here.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Hair, Guy, Heaven

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