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"It took Caine a few beats to get it. "No. Go kill yourself. Eat your own gun. No. No no no."You're happy here counting fish and nagging kids to work? Edilio asked."He's not, Virtue said, beating Toto to the punch and earning an annoyed glance from Caine."He's only done it for two days since the battle, and he's already bored."
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"Are you going to dance with me tonight?' I ask.'Hell, yeah.''Colin never wanted to dance with me.''I'm not Colin, querida, and never will be.''Good. I've got you, Alex. I realize it's all I need and I'm ready to share it with the world.'Inside the club, Alex immediately heads for the dance floor with me. I ignore the gawking stares from Fairfield students from my side of town as I pull Alex close to me and we move as one to the beat.We move together as if we've been a couple forever, every movement in sync with each other. For the first time I'm not afraid of what people think of me and Alex together. Next year, in college, it won't matter who came from what side of town."
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"You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core."
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"If one looks at a balancing scale putting 'fear of change on one side and 'status quo on the other, they are often in balance. Change is hard. We tend to accept our condition and no matter how painful, we will not change until the balancing scale is tipped - only when the discomfort becomes greater than the fear of change does the scale tip."
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"Without question, positive thinking will do more for you, will make you feel better, do better, let you have more fun, and be liked by more people than negative thinking ever will."
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"Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport."
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"Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act."
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"But I didn't. I didn't say anything, if only because I had no idea how to respond to such an overture. If my experience with friends was sparse, what I knew about boys- other than a competitors for grades or class rank- was nonexistent."
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"Your perception of the world and the way you see yourself in it has created within your mind a concept, a philosophy, of the way you believe things to be."
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"Instead of complaining about the problem and blaming others, start finding the solution."
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"It is amazing to think after all that has happened in this country in the last few years, the last few decades, that so many people have this blind faith that government is our friend and therefore, so we don't need protections against it."
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"Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive."
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"I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down."
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"In the digital world, nothing truly exist unless it exist in at least two places."
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"Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self."
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"And the memory made her humble, for we should not forget what it is to be young and to have ideas and attitudes that may later seem so fanciful."
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"His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out."
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"You've been smoking again, haven't you? Your eyes look like road maps and you're in full bastard mode."
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"Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed."
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"There is sitting and there is sitting. (...) Each one waits for the other to move, but the lion is poised, his tail twitching, while the fawn is frozen by fear, bowels turned to belly. No matter which way he bounds, the lion will have him, and he knows it."
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"Some mysteries are meant to stay that way."
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"Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."
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"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
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"All rivers pay homage to the ocean for it lies lowest."
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"I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen."
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"They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame."
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"Q: What is wrong with the world?A: Everybody pays attention to pictures of things. Nobody pays attention to things themselves."
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"I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us."
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"I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart."
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"I decided at 40 I was wasting entire chunks of my brain and didn't want to blow my one chance on Earth. I'm glad I made that decision. Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Sometimes, as with film, you can hybridize, but I think it's basically the space part of my brain wanting equal footing with the time part."
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"[They] can't understand you: you're such an exceptional person. That's what I liked about you from the start, I felt that you weren't like everybody else."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
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"I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us."
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"The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows."
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"The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with language. Language made them so much more active. Mental telepathy, with everybody constantly telling everybody everything, produced a sort of generalized indifference to all information. But language, with its slow, narrow meanings, made it possible to think about one thing at a time -- to start thinking in terms of projects."
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"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario."
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"In every relationship one must sacrifice to show thy love. Are you willing to make sacrifices for someone you love?"
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