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• You know, when you don't go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly 'in the know,' start whispering that you're gay. If I were gay, I wouldn't be ashamed to admit it, but I'm not.

  Adam Sandler

  Sleep, Gay, People

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• I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

  Conor Oberst

  Eye, Secret, Microphones

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• I wished I'd known weeks ago that we didn't have to be chaperoned. I remembered my old daydreams: the prince and I, alone together, cuddling and whispering... I probably would have wised up and brocken the engagement sooner.

  Margaret Haddix

  Cuddling, Together, Engagement

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe.

  Karl Marx

  Revenge, Class, Sight

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.36, Haymarket Books

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• I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower had a different family inside it.

  Lucy Christopher

  Flower, Talking, Different

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ignorant people, whispering cruel rumors, her mother whispered. Pay them no mind.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Mother, People, Ignorant

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• In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Stars, Men

  Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 3

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• What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

  Ray Bradbury

  Shouting, Worst, Best Things

  "Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

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• Here's to all the places we went. And all the places we'll go. And here's to me, whispering again and again and again and again: iloveyou

  John Green

  Hipster, Again And Again

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.16, Penguin

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• And when we look in through the windows, all we see are shadows. And when we try and listen, all we hear is a whispering. And we cannot understand the whispering, because our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have both won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dream, War, Mind

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.53, Penguin Books India

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• "Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed... awake." Alex is whispering now. He closes his eyes, opens them again. "I'm tired of sleeping."

  Lauren Oliver

  Tired, Sleep, Eye

  "Delirium". Book by Lauren Oliver, January 1, 2011.

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• The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sea, Forever, Soul

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.2842, e-artnow

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• and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out. (from i must become a menace to my enemies)

  June Jordan

  Reality, Hatred, Tree

  June Jordan (2012). “Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan”, p.232, Copper Canyon Press

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• It keeps eternal whisperings around desolate shores

  John Keats

  Shore, Eternal, Desolate

  'On the Sea' (1817)

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• The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

  Richelle Mead

  Girlfriend, Dirty, Asking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.106, Penguin

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• Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Average, Voice

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• The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

  Libba Bray

  Night, Wind, Secret

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• But-" Maia, still looking at Alec and Magnus, broke off and rasied her eyebrows. Simon turned to see what she was looking at - and stared. Alec had his arms around Magnus and was kissing him full on the mouth. Magnus, who appeared to be in a state of shock, stood frozen. Several groups of people - Shadowhunters and Downworlders alike - were staring and whispering. Glancing to the side, Simon saw the Lightwoods, their eyes widen, gaping at the display. Maryse had her hand over her mouth. Maia looked perplexed. "Wait a second," she said. "Do we all have to do that, too?

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Kissing, Hands

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• I don’t see a way in,” Eve whispered. Why are you whispering?” Myrnin whispered back. “Vampires can hear us, anyway.

  Rachel Caine

  Vampire, Way, Myrnin

  Rachel Caine (2009). “Fade Out: The Morganville Vampires”, p.143, Penguin

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• Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Running, Sleep, Laughing

  Jerry Spinelli (2002). “Loser”

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• We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,” Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Apology, Men

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• Picture a tall, dark figure, surrounded by cornfields... NO, YOU CAN'T RIDE A CAT. WHO EVER HEARD OF THE DEATH OF RATS RIDING A CAT? THE DEATH OF RATS WOULD RIDE SOME KIND OF DOG. Picture more fields, a great horizon-spanning network of fields, rolling in gentle waves... DON'T ASK ME I DON'T KNOW. SOME KIND OF TERRIER, MAYBE. ...fields of corn, alive, whispering in the breeze... RIGHT, AND THE DEATH OF FLEAS CAN RIDE IT TOO. THAT WAY YOU KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. ...awaiting the clockwork of the seasons. METAPHORICALLY.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dog, Cat, Dark

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• Well, for one, you have to remember not to scream. Once you have their attention, whispering is much more effective. Screaming ghosts scare people, you know

  Gabrielle Zevin

  People, Scare, Attention

  Gabrielle Zevin (2016). “Elsewhere”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".

  Joseph Conrad

  Mean, Thinking, Air

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.15, Xist Publishing

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• And yet when i finally drifted of in that barely conscious state where logic was absent and dreams encroached i could almost hear bone's voice. he was whispering that same promise he'd made to me months ago when our relationship started and i wondered if it was a sign - and if he'd really meant it. If you run from me i'll chase you. And i'll find you.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Running, Dream, Voice

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