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f2eb217
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There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.
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independence
idea
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Alan Moore |
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daec47b
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The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.
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mind
uglies
tally
shoes
one
idea
ugly
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Scott Westerfeld |
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fa35683
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"Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy." [
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happy
mind-travel
book
idea
company
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J.K. Rowling |
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53f00a6
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The last clear definite function of man--muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need--this is man....For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. This you may say of man--when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. This you may say and know it and know it. This you may know when the bombs plummet out of the black planes on the market place, when prisoners are stuck like pigs, when the crushed bodies drain filthily in the dust. You may know it in this way. If the step were not being taken, if the stumbling-forward ache were not alive, the bombs would not fall, the throats would not be cut. Fear the time when the bombs stop falling while the bombers live--for every bomb is proof that the spirit has not died. And fear the time when the strikes stop while the great owners live--for every little beaten strike is proof that the step is being taken. And this you can know--fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is the foundation of Manself, and this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.
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man
john-steinback
the-grapes-of-wrath
idea
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John Steinbeck |
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2cc7163
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"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."
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funny
humor
idea
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Alexandre Dumas |
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4ab6f3f
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You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon--
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love
unattainable
idea
memory
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Ayn Rand |
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b491967
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This principle eludes most people, but it is critical: You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.
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idea
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Ed Catmull |
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c20c45f
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Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.
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options
solutions
solution
idea
problem-solving
ideas
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David Eddings |
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6d95ae0
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"Guilty?" George's face betrayed his surprise. "Whatever for?" "That neither of your brothers ever offered for me." Another thing she probably should not have said. But as it happened, Billie did think that Lady Manston felt this way. And when George's expression slid from curiosity to something that might have been jealousy... well, Billie could not help but feel a little pleased. "So I think she's trying to make it up to me," she said gamely. "It's not as if I was waiting for one of them to ask me, but I think she thinks I was, so now she wants to introduce me --" "Enough," George practically barked. "I beg your pardon?" He cleared his throat. "Enough," he said in a much more evenly tempered voice. "It's ridiculous." "That your mother feels this way?" "That she thinks introducing you to a pack of useless fops is a sensible idea." Billie took a moment to enjoy this statement."
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jealousy
love
idea
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Julia Quinn |
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8db806d
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And then, unbidden, seemingly out of nowhere, a thought or image arrives. Some will float into your head like goldfish, lovely, bright, orange, and weightless, and you follow them like a child at an aquarium that was thought to be without fish. Others will step of the shadows like Boo Radley and make you catch your breath or take a step backward. They're often so rich, these unbidden thoughts, and so clear that they feel indelible. But I say write them all down anyway.
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writer
writing
authoring
book-ideas
getting-an-idea
writing-ideas
write
idea
ideas
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Anne Lamott |
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1158c36
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She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing inside it.
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metaphor
margaret-atwood
the-robber-bride
idea
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Margaret Atwood |
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51b8a99
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After all, you can't force a friendship.
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friendship
idea
summer
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Ann M. Martin |
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268375f
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Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.
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opportunity
truth
idea
implement
meet
occur
quality
make
ideas
unique
creativity
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Robin Hobb |
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b8f7d24
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Tyler. His handsome, lion-eyed ravagement. His capacity for devotion. Which is so sexy. Why do so many gay men lack that? Why are they so distracted, so in love with the idea of more and more and then more, again?
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ravagement
devotion
idea
sexy
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Michael Cunningham |