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The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody'd move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole, with their pretty antlers and they're pretty, skinny legs, and that squaw with the naked bosom would still be weaving that same blanket. Nobody's be different. The only thing that would be different would be you. Not that you'd be so much older or anything. It wouldn't be that, exactly. You'd just be different, that's all. You'd have an overcoat this time. Or the kid that was your partner in line the last time had got scarlet fever and you'd have a new partner. Or you'd have a substitute taking the class, instead of Miss Aigletinger. Or you'd heard your mother and father having a terrific fight in the bathroom. Or you'd just passed by one of those puddles in the street with gasoline rainbows in them. I mean you'd be different in some way--I can't explain what I mean. And even if I could, I'm not sure I'd feel like it.
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life
interesting
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J.D. Salinger |
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There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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self-knowledge
personality
interesting
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L.M. Montgomery |
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One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
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humor
interesting
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Douglas Adams |
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You say freak, I say unique.
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looks
oddity
people
positivity
life
inspirational
inspirational-quote
inner-beauty
freak
ethereal
appreciation
interesting
odd
weird
attraction
imperfections
strange
unique
beautiful
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Christian Baloga |
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Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.
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killing
funny
humor
inspirational
incentive
interesting
kind
different
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Anthony Horowitz |
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We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
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inspirational
interesting
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Melissa Marr |
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...Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive--it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?
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wonder
life
interesting
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L.M. Montgomery |
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she wasn't very interesting but few people are.
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poem
poetry
people
women
humanity
family
death
life
love
bukowski
interesting
conversation
society
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Charles Bukowski |
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One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
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death
life
interesting
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Jimmy Buffett |
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No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume. We can't bear to be without it, but no, nobody's addicted. We could turn it off anytime we wanted. I fit a window frame into a brick wall. With a little brush, the size for fingernail polish, I glue it. The window is the size of a fingernail. The glue smells like hair spray. The smell tastes like oranges and gasoline.
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music
tv
interesting
radio
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.
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interesting
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Jodi Picoult |
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A little damage makes people more interesting, right?
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interesting
question
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Catherine Hapka |
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If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.
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perspectives
winning
interesting
thoughtful
losing
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David Mitchell |
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It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.
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pain
interesting
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Melissa de la Cruz |
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And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn't make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new.
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interesting
vacation
new
thinking
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Mark Haddon |
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They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
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interesting
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Scott O'Dell |
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You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed.
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interesting
reflection
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Ruth Ozeki |
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Best friends one, and now we have almost nothing to say to each other. It was interesting, how he had joined those guys and I just stayed on my own. I didn't like it or dislike it. It was just funny that things had turned out that way.
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friends
funny
the-way-things-turn-out
interesting
like
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Markus Zusak |
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According to my rule, you can find in every woman something - damn it! - something extraordinarily interesting, something you won't find in any other woman. Only you must know how to find it - that's the point! That requires talent! For me ugly women do not exist: the very fact that she's a woman is half the attraction for me- but how could you understand that? Even in old maids you sometimes find something so attractive that you can't help marvelling at the damn fools who've let them grow old without noticing it! The first thing to do with barefooted girls and ugly women is to take them by surprise - that's how one should deal with them. You didn't know that, did you? They must be surprised till they're enraptured, till they're transfixed, till they're ashamed that such a gentleman should have fallen in love with such a swarthy creature. What's so wonderful is that so long as there are peasants and gentlemen in the world - and there always will be - there will also be such lovely little scullery maids and their masters - that's all one needs for one's happiness.
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women
fyodor
interesting
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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observations
interesting
sky
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Aimee Bender |
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The options available to a creative person are ever limited by the choices offered by a philosopher.
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science
philosophy
interesting
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Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn't take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrinsic amount of interest; instead things were interesting as long as you had attention to give them. How long does it take to draw a baseball mitt? As much time as you care to give it. Not an infinite amount of time, but more time than you first imagined. For many days, so long as you want to keep drawing that mitt, and studying that mitt, there will always be a new and finer layer of distinctions to draw out and lay in. Your attention discovers--seems thereby to produce--an array of interesting features in any object, like a lamp.
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drawing
interesting
interest
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Annie Dillard |
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'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe and unforgiving.'
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interesting
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Matthew Pearl |
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The Super Constellations took three days to reach London [from Australia] and lacked the power or range to dodge most storms. When monsoons or cyclones were encountered, the pilots had no choice but to put on the seat belt signs and bounce through them. Even in normal conditions they flew at a height guaranteed to produce more or less constant turbulence. (Qantas called it, without evident irony, the Kangaroo Route.) It was, by any modern measure, an ordeal.
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interesting
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Bill Bryson |
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...Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable qualities in the husband at the moment inserting his latch-key in the front door preparatory to mounting the stairs and joining her. The man who, after twenty-five years of marriage, can call, by his return to her side, this expression to the countenance of an intelligent woman is, without question or argument, an individual whose life and occupations are as interesting as his character and points of view.
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marriage
life
love
commitment
interesting
faithfulness
enjoyment
partners
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Frances Hodgson Burnett |