"When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't."
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"Are you following me?" she asks, but doesn't meet my gaze. "Yeah," I say. "Why?" I give her the only honest and true answer I have. "You're where I want to be."
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"Just so you know, I’m goin’ to enlist.” “I’m proud of you. But why?” I groan against the pain but manage to give him a half smile. “I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that could make angels weep."
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"You can’t keep her.” I know that. But I’m not ready to give her up just yet."
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"Don't they give you happy pills in this place?"
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"You own a piece of me," he murmurs as he holds me afterward. "Good," I tell him. "And just so you know… I'm never giving it back."
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"You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't."
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"If no words come, you can always give him the finger."
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"Dwelling-place and food are useful for life but give it no significance: the immediate goals of the housekeeper are only means, not true ends."
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"If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man."
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"He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures nor love as he loves himself those whom chance separated from him by an abyss. The variety of constraints pressing upon man give rise to the illusion of several distinct species that cannot communicate. Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love and justice."
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"Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?"
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"Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense."
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"Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea."
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"I, personally, would be shocked if we went to the end of the tape now and I didn't have at least one... Look, even if I don't get one directly, eventually they're just going to have to give me one when I get old. So no matter how you slice it, I'm getting one."
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"Sleep's the only medicine that gives ease."
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"Give me a life wherever there is an opportunity to live, and better life than was my father's."
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"To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it."
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"I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held."
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"My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds."
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