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• My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

  Kiera Cass

  Princess, Shoes, Red

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.35, HarperCollins

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• This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

  Deb Caletti

  Long, Together, Sometimes

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• ‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them?

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Cities, Desire, Comfort

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• I lay there in my black slip dress and wondered if I ought to have worn pants. I mean, who knew what I was going to find up there? What if I had to do some climbing? People might see my underwear.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Climbing, People

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Mediator #4: Darkest Hour”, p.254, Zondervan

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• HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hands, Pockets, Arms

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.105, University of Georgia Press

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• A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

  Jane Yolen

  Book, Worn It, May

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• Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed. Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Wall, Jeans, Clothes

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

  David Levithan

  Darkness, Black, Today

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.164, Egmont UK

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• Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)

  André Aciman

  Pain, Heart, Two

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.225, Macmillan

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• As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Cry, Hell, Imagine

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• Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Heart, Years

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• If I may ride with you, Citizen Evremonde, will you let me hold your hand? I am not afraid, but I am little and weak, and it will give me more courage." As the patient eyes were lifted to his face, he saw a sudden doubt in them, and then astonishment. He pressed the work-worn, hunger-worn young fingers, and touched his lips. "Are you dying for him?" she whispered. "And his wife and child. Hush! Yes." "Oh, you will let me hold your brave hand, stranger?" "Hush! Yes, my poor sister; to the last.

  Charles Dickens

  Children, Eye, Hands

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• High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Years, Land, Long

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Names, Two

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.97, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.

  William Feather

  Life, Long, May

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• I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

  A. J. McLean

  Dresses, Louboutins, No Fear

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Vexation, Insult, Positive Atheism

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• Many people will say, well, clothes should be worn; but I think people can look at them in public, like seeing a film. I think museum exhibitions are very important

  Issey Miyake

  Thinking, Museums, Clothes

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• The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

  Jim Elliot

  Men, Hands, Curiosity

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• There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

  David R. Brower

  Environmental, Garbage, Stores

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• I chose the shadows; they did not choose me. I stay here securely not just because I feel plain, but because disappearance is by now the easy way. The habit. The worn path that I can trod knowingly and be assured safe passage home.

  Rod McKuen

  Home, Solitude, Shadow

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• As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

  Epictetus

  Men, Casting Off, Body

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• The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

  Robert Fisk

  Uniforms, Victim, Conviction

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• The character we exhibit in the latter half of our life need not necessarily be, though it often is, our original character, developed further, dried up, exaggerated, or diminished. It can be its exact opposite, like a suit worn inside out.

  Marcel Proust

  Character, Often Is, Opposites

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