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"I want to do everything to you, all at once, he muttered. 'I want to stroke you, fuck you, hold you down, lift you up, pin you, take you. I want you to take me. Lord and Lady, Sophie, I don't know that I have any gentleness in me tonight."
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"When I write, I write obsessively. I try to pace myself, but some fires are too hot to put out."
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"But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens."
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"Complex prevents a person from being a fully valued personality."
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"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."
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"Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man or woman, fat or thin, tall or short, ugly or beautiful, who is able to do that job better than the rest of the world."
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"There would always be dishonorable things done to preserve the honor of any power."
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"She'd seen what was between his legs and she wasn't ashamed to admit she wanted to see it again. More than just see it. Touch and taste would be a good start."
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"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
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"Let craft, ambition, spite, Be quenched in Reason's night, Till weakness turn to might, Till what is dark be light, Till what is wrong be right!"
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"It's not the obviousness or the complexity of the things that's deftly deluding mankind. It's man himself."
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"Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose."
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"God speaks repeatedly and in many different ways."
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"I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit."
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"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
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"For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral?"
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"Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it! This is truly a golfer's dream."
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"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side."
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"Instinctively I started to panic when Dr. Martinez strapped my arm down, andthen the panic just melted away, la la la.Someone took my other hand. Fang. I felt his calluses, his bones, hisstrength."I'm so glad you're here, I slurred, smiling dopily up at him. I took inhis startled, worried expression but dismissed it. "I know everything's fineif you're here.I thought I saw his cheeks flush, but I wasn't too sure of anything anymore."
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"If "Been there, done that isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list."
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"Do not, for one second, allow people with closed minds and no ambition to make a difference in this life silence you or stop you from going above and beyond."
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"She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust."
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"If you think about it, we get robbed of the mystery of being alive. I think we get robbed of the glory of it because we don't remember how we got here. When you get born, you wake up slowly to everything. From birth to 26, God is slowly turning on the lights, and you are groggy and pointing at things, and say 'Circle,' and, 'Blue,', and, 'Car,' and, 'Sex,' and then, 'Job,' and, 'Healthcare'. The experience is so slow, you could easily come to believe life isn't that big of a deal, that life isn't staggering. Life IS staggering, and we are just too used to it."
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"Do things that count, but don't count the things you do."
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"Ah, damn it, lass,'he called after her. 'I've busted my stitches wide open.''What?'she cried, hurrying back to him. 'Let me see!''Ah-ha!' He snared her around the waist, dragging her down with him to his lap.'You still care for me!"
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"Mikey," she says, but not like she's about to say anything more, just like she's identifying me, making a place for me here that's mine to exist in. I want her so much, my heart feels heavy, like I'm grieving. Is this what they meant about that stomach feeling? They didn't say it felt this sad."
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"All is artifice in my world, Constantine. Even me. Especially me. He taught me to be a duchess, to be an impregnable fortress, to be the guardian of my own heart, But he admitted that he could not teach me how or when to allow the fortress to be breached or my heart to be unlocked. It would simply happen, he said. he promised it would, in fact. But how is love to find me, even assuming it is looking?"
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"If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong."
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"And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud."
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"No one was getting past him."
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"I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for."
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"Don't confuse your mentor with your buddies. Unlike the latter, your mentor isn't contented with where you're in life right now..."
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"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
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"To Move from Woe to Wow . . . Listen Attentively Be fully present and give your customer your full attention. Stay calm and remain patient. Do not interrupt or become defensive. Let the customer express his or her concerns. Nod your head and use affirming words to show that you are listening. Repeat back and empathize, when necessary. This confirms your understanding of the problem or question."
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"He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, since accomplices are potential enemies: she was some one with whom, by some unheard-of miracle, joys above the joys of friendship were to be tasted, but who, even through these fleeting ecstasies, remained simply and securely his friend."
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