"Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel."
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"Women deserve to have more than 12 years between 28 and 40."
"What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone."
"He who would greatly deserve must greatly dare."
"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
"Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve."
"Life responds to deserve and not to need."
"All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect."
"Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness."
"[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got."
"You deserve to need me, not to have me."
"I think we deserve people who really, really love us."
"It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it."
"Those who would trade safety for freedom deserve neither."
"You shouldn't love me. I don't deserve you."
"I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves."
"I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with."
"You have the health you deserve."
"I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature."
"We get what we deserve. They are our elected officials."