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• Anybody out there who is a parent, if your kids want to paint their bedrooms,as a favor to me, let them do it. It'll be OK.

  Randy Pausch

  Educational, Kids, Parenting

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he would always be the one who got off first. When we kissed, he always pulled away first. He always kept me just on the edge of crazy. Feeling like I wanted him too much, which just made me want him more....[It was] excruciating and wonderful. It feels good to want something that bad. I thought about him the way you think about dinner when you haven't eaten for a day and a half. Like you'd sell your soul for it.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Crazy, Thinking, Phones

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• She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.

  Robert Jordan

  Way

  Robert Jordan (2000). “The Eye of the World: Book One of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.639, Macmillan

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• As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Loss, Grandchildren

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.

  Jim Butcher

  Strong, Smart, Stupid

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

  Dylan Thomas

  Moon, Men, Wind

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• I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Smart, Taken

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Scratches, Would Be

  Werner Herzog (2009). “Conquest of the useless: reflections from the making of Fitzcarraldo”, Ecco Pr

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• i want to stay with you." it was easier to say in the darkness, knowing as i spoke my voice would betray me, my hopeless addiction to him.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Voice, Knowing, Addiction

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• His hands are saying that he wants to hold her. His feet are saying that he wants to chase after her... He's probably forgotten that I'm here, beside him

  Ai Yazawa

  Hands, Feet, Forgotten

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• No mistakes, I'd promised myself that i would make no mistakes, no matter how minimal they seemed. if i held her hand, i would only want more - another insignificant touch, another move closer to her. i could feel that. a new kind of desire was growing in me, working to override my self-control. no mistakes.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mistake, Moving, Self

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• I want to know about my mom. And other stuff. I want to know the whole story, good or bad.” “Me, too,” said Gazzy. “I want to find my parents so I can tell’m what total scuzzes they are. Like, ‘Hi, mom and dad, you’re such scum!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.

  James Patterson

  Running, Dog, Kids

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being.

  Denis Johnson

  Writing, Humans, Human Beings

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• After a lifetime's independence– yes, selfish independence as my daughter would rightly claim – I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals.

  Rosie Thomas

  Fear, Selfish, Rocks

  "Iris and Ruby: A Novel".

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• Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Tired, Heart

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• This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love.

  Zadie Smith

  Divorce, People, White Teeth

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.8, Vintage

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• cute," she announced. "and oh,baby doll,you do give off a powerful vide,don't you? makes me want to touch you." with your teeth,id bet.i say to myself

  Gena Showalter

  Cute, Baby, Powerful

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• Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Men, Comfort

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.168, Penguin

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• He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me 'Little Pecker' while you're at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Flower, Mean, Men

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• I want to perceive and understand the hidden powers and laws of things, in order to have them in my power.

  Salvador Dali

  Order, Law, Perceive

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• For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.

  Sebastian Barry

  Secret, Sanity, Fortune

  Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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• You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually end up dead. But you see, I’m not going to give you any choice. You belong to me now whether you like it or not.” “I don’t like it, not one bit!” “Try to escape,” he suggested coolly. “Go ahead. See what happens. Give me one excuse to take what I want from you, even if it is against your will. I want you that much. Too damned much.” He turned without warning and kissed her, flattening her back against the pine mast.

  Gaelen Foley

  People, Giving, Choices

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• Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Giving Up, Eye, Needs

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• Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves Peeta, too. I reach out for him and say something like his name and he's there, holding me and patting my back. "It's okay. It'll be okay, sweetheart." He sits me on a length of broken marble pillar and keeps an arm around me while I sob.

  Suzanne Collins

  Names, Broken, Comfort

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.163, Scholastic Inc.

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