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...to encounter me now at age sixty-six is to be unable to imagine me at fifteen...
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people
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Richard Ford |
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After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.
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people
connection-with-others
connection-with-people
connections
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Abigail Thomas |
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She was the kind of person who never gave you enough time to miss her.
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relationships
people
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Zadie Smith |
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I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed
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people
life
project
reform
psychology
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Ben Elton |
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"How can you not know?" Silvestri said again. "Has twelve years of living the way you've been living not shown you how badly people live? The poverty, the hunger, the ignorance, the fear?" "Yes, but times have changed..." "Yes, times have changed, but people haven't."
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people
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José Saramago |
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But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before.. ..I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But - how can I put this? - I'm almost... drawn to them.
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drawn
similar
people
close
same
suffer
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Mitch Albom |
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Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.
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money
words
time
pain
love-quotes
literature
marriage
mind
grief
feminism
loss
history
reading
prayer
nature
world
depression
people
women
freedom
dream
joy
future
politics
friends
leadership
quote
work
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living
motivation
family
destiny
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fantasy
dreams
sadness
positive-thinking
strength
music
friendship
motivational
spiritual
heart
endtime
fiction-food-for-though
humanity-humour
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magic-spirit
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earning
motivational-quotes
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quotes
forgiveness
self-improvement
power
self-help
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patience
psychology
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Patience Johnson |
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People love different people in different ways.
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people
relationship
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James Baldwin |
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People surprise you sometimes.
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people
dennis-lehane
sacred
quotes
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Dennis Lehane |
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In general, people were not road maps. People were not hieroglyphs or books. They were not stories. A person was a collection of accidents. A person was an infinite pile of rocks with things growing underneath.
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people
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Lorrie Moore |
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"Each of you told what your burden was just now, except Beth. I rather think she hasn't got any," said her mother. "Yes, I have. Mine is dishes and dusters, and envying girls with nice pianos, and being afraid of people."
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people
dishes-and-dusters
louisa-may-alcott
pianos
beth
envy
burden
mother
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Louisa May Alcott |
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The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
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people
happiness
life
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.
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violence
history
world
people
society-problem
society
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Cormac McCarthy |
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It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.
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people
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Jess Walter |
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How long have i been dead? A minute. An hour. A thousand years
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heaven
people
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Mitch Albom |
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We all have the capacity to do hurtful things, but we differ from one another in terms of scale-how much we can hurt others, how far we will go to make a statement about our beliefs, how remorseful we might feel in the aftermath of committing a terrible act.
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people
limits
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Roxane Gay |
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One thought ever at the fore-- That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?
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history
people
global
law
peace
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Kim Stanley Robinson |
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A lot of us are like that--I'm like that, Ed Abbey was like that, and it sounds like this McCandless kid was like that: We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.
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independence
people
social
companionship
isolation
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Jon Krakauer |
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"Dying," Morrie suddenly said, "is the only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else. So many of the people who come to visit me are unhappy."
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live
people
unhappy
sad
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Mitch Albom |
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But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I ever did before. The other night, on TV, I saw people in Bosnia running across the street, getting fired upon, killed, innocent victims... and I just started to cry. I feel their anguish as if it were my own. I don't know any of these people. But--how can I put this?--I'm almost... drawn to them.
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suffering
people
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Mitch Albom |
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I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on all the good things still in my life. On the people who are coming to see me. On the stories I'm going to hear. On you - if it's Tuesday. Because we're Tuesday people.
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story
good
people
life
tuesday
cry
self
need
dying
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Mitch Albom |
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We hold all people to unspoken rules about who and how they should be, how they should think, and what the should say. We say we hate stereotypes but take issue when people deviate from those stereotypes.
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stereotypes
prejudice
people
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Roxane Gay |
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The only thing more pitiful than a middle-aged punk is a white Rastafarian. I did meet one of those once, and he was lonelier than I was.
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people
humor
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Louis de Bernières |
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And you know what people immediately start looking for, five minutes after they arrive someplace new? You know what's on their minds? I'll tell you: How are they gonna get laid, and where are they gonna find some mind-altering substances.
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people
laid
mind-altering-substances
new
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Michel Faber |
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Le speranze le hanno le persone, ma i destini li distribuisce il diavolo.
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people
hope
devil
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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There are just people going about what they always do. Talking. Parking crooked.
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people
funny
humor
location-3548
parking
human-nature
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Markus Zusak |
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People want to believe.
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people
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Robert Ferrigno |
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As the kids dance around the front yard under the night sky and the lights, I see something. Lua and Marie are holding hands. They look like they're so happy, just inside this moment, watching the kids and the lights on their old fibro house. Lua kisses her. Just softly on the lips. And she kisses back. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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people
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Markus Zusak |
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, I heard my aunt Diane boom in my head. Those words had been the bane of my childhood, a constant reminder that nothing turned out right, not just for me but for anyone, and that's why someone had invented a saying like that. So we'd all know that we'd never have what we needed.
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wrong
people
ifs-and-buts
sayings
quotes
right
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Gillian Flynn |
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I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leant over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have transported me across sea and sand; centuries and continents have fallen away at my bidding. I have spied upon the misdeeds of the mighty and witnessed the nobility of the meek. I have bent so low over sleepers in their beds that they might have felt my breath on their faces. I have seen their dreams.
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people
characters
lives
writers
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Diane Setterfield |
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Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.
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people
taste
shooting
safety
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Rachel Kushner |
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You never know who anybody is. Even the people closest to you.
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people
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Jude Watson |
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is reality simply a dream we share?
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people
reality
family
paul-hautman
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Pete Hautman |
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I loved God of course, in the early days, and God loved me. That was something. And I loved animals and nature. And poetry. People were the problem. How do you love another person? How do you trust another person to love you? I had no idea.
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people
trust
love-issues
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Jeanette Winterson |
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Keep on the path and you will not see the ruined people, so do not stray from the path.
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people
ruined-people
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Colson Whitehead |
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Las estadisticas lo demuestran: mas gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.
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people
death
estadisticas
gente
morir
muere
cama
muerte
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón |
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Cand actionam, chiar cu cele mai bune intentii, cand ne amestecam in cursul lumii, riscam de fiecare data sa provocam un alt dezastru care s-ar putea sa nu fie direct infaptuit de noi, dar care n-ar fi posibil fara interventia noastra. Unele dintre cele mai rele nedreptati au fost provocate de oamenii care au incercat la un moment dat sa schimbe lucrurile.
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people
truth
soul
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Gregory David Roberts |
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Molds are for Jell-O, not for people.
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people
molds
unique
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Sarah Stewart Holland |