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If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands downβor cheeks up.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
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We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.
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Eric Carle
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If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken.
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Terry Pratchett (Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4))
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You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.
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Charlaine Harris (Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3))
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For what itβs worth: itβs never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. Thereβs no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life youβre proud of. If you find that youβre not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice.
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Erich Fromm (The Art of Loving)
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Sookie, my little bullet-sucker"
Eric, my big bullshitter
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Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
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I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.
That was a tough exit line to top.
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Charlaine Harris (Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3))
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And now," Eric yelled into his mircophone, "we're going to sing a new song-one we just wrote. This one's for my girlfriend. We've been going out for three weeks, and, damn, our love is true. We're gonna be together forever, baby. This one's called 'Bang You Like a Drum.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised.
"Yes."
"That's . . . crazy, Sookie.
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Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
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Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror.
"Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me.
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Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
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Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.
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Eric Hoffer
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
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Eric Hoffer (The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms)
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You chose us. Now we have to choose you.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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There's a door."
"Where does it go?"
"It stays where it is, I think.
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Terry Pratchett (Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4))
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Ha," I said. "Oh, ha-ha. Yeah, βcause they love me. You see how many vampires are up here? Zero, right?"
One," said Eric, stepping out of the stairwell.
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Charlaine Harris (All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7))
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I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman
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Charlaine Harris (Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10))
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Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.
I'd finally found something Eric did poorly.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5))
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I hope you live a life youβre proud of. If you find that youβre not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
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Eric Metaxas (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy)
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
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Eric Berne
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Did we have sex?" he asked directly.
For about two minutes, this might actually be fun. "Eric," I said, "we had sex in every position I could imagine, and some I couldnβt. We had sex in every room in my house, and we had sex outdoors. You told me it was the best youβd ever had." (At the time he couldnβt recall all the sex heβd ever had. But heβd paid me a compliment.) "Too bad you canβt remember it," I concluded with a modest smile.
Eric looked like Iβd hit him in the forehead with a mallet. For all of thirty seconds his reaction was completely gratifying.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5))
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As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Eric called Al's suicide brave, and he was wrong. My mother's death was brave. I remember how calm she was, how determined. It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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Itβs a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize whatβs changed, is you.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
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Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
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Eric Idle
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In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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Eric Hoffer
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We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Eric Hoffer
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If you are really one of us, it won't matter to you that you might fail. And if it does, you are a coward.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe vampires had. Thoughtful. Hungry.
"That's interesting," he said. "I had a psychic once. It was incredible."
"Did the psychic think so?
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Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1))
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The passion I feel for you is more than youβre prepared for. - Eric
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Kailin Gow (The Phantom Diaries (The Phantom Diaries, #1))
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Some might think you suicidal."
"Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.
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Charlaine Harris (All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7))
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The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight.
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Terry Pratchett (Eric)
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It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
β
I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy."
"Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend stuff."
"Feeling left out?" said Kyle. "I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too."
"As long as everyone's wearing their own pants."
"I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation." Eric poked his head through the curtain.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4))
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Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.
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Charlaine Harris (Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3))
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Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
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Eric Hoffer (The Temper of Our Time)
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Deeper? Are you trying to bruise her liver?
~Eric
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Olivia Cunning (Backstage Pass (Sinners on Tour, #1))
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You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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My eyes flew open, and I pushed back against rock-hard shoulders. I let out a little squeak of horror.
"It's me," said a familiar voice.
..."Eric, what are you doing here?"
"Snuggling.
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Charlaine Harris (Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3))
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We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.
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Eric Micha'el Leventhal
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She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone.
"Sorry about that, guys!" he yelled. "All right. I'm Eric, and this is my homeboy Matt on the drums. My first poem is called 'Untitled.'" He screwed up his face as if in pain, and wailed into the mike. "Come my faux juggernaut, my nefarious loins! Slather every protuberance with arid zeal!"
Simon slid down in his seat. "Please don't tell anyone I know him."
Clary giggled. "Who uses the word 'loins'?"
"Eric," Simon said grimly. "All his poems have loins in them."
'Turgid is my torment!" Eric wailed. "Agony swells within!"
"You bet it does," Clary said.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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Life begins at night
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Charlaine Harris (Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1))
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Maia pulled on a braid. "I ran into Eric of all people. He told me what happened and that you'd backed out of Millenium Lint's gigs for the past two weeks because of it."
"Actually, they changed their name," Jordan said. "They're Midnight Burrito now.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments, #5))
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...But also because I find I really doβ¦" He paused, as if he were about to say something outrageous. "I find I have feelings for you."
"Oh," I said into his chest, sounding as astonished as Eric had(...)"Eric," I said, after a long pause, "I almost hate to say this, but I have feelings for you, too.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
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Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
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Eric Sevareid
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Hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
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Eric Jerome Dickey (Liar's Game)
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Benjamin, weβre meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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Don't go through life; grow through life.
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Eric Butterworth
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When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful.
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Eric Thomas (The Secret to Success)
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The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
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Eric Schmidt
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People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
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Eric Hoffer
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Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years agoβshe thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldnβt stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids arenβt mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and βpeach coloredβ for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
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Kiersten White (Paranormalcy (Paranormalcy, #1))
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But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
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Eric Wright
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For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.
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Eric Clapton
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It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off
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Eric Bogosian (subUrbia)
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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
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Eric Hoffer
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The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.
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Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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Eric Hoffer
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Each person you meet
is an aspect of yourself,
clamoring for love.
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Eric Micha'el Leventhal
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Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
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Eric Hoffer (The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements)
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Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.
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Terry Pratchett (Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4))
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Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric's nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric's eyes closed in ecstasy, and he actually licked his lips. I felt like a T-bone just out of reach of a hungry dog.
"Snap out of it," I said. I wasn't in the mood.
With a huge effort, Eric reigned himself in. "When you smell like that," he said, "I just wanna fuck you and bite you and rub myself all over you.
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Charlaine Harris
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Money matters but less than we think and not in the way that we think. Family is important. So are friends. Envy is toxic. So is excessive thinking. Beaches are optional. Trust is not. Neither is gratitude.
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Eric Weiner (The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World)
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The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.
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Eric Ries (The Lean Startup)
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We could go back," he said. In the dome light of the car, his face looked hard as stone. "We could go back to your house. I can stay with you always. We can know each other's bodies in every way, night after night. I could love you." His nostrils flared, and he looked suddenly proud. "I could work. You would not be poor. I would help you."
"Sounds like a marriage," I said, trying to lighten the atmosphere. But my voice was too shaky.
"Yes," he said.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
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It is not necessary that you believe that the officer who choked Eric Garner set out that day to destroy a body. All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state and the weight of an American legacy, and they necessitate that of the bodies destroyed every year, some wild and disproportionate number of them will be black.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me)
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Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said.
Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"
No, I'm just opportunistic."
I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great.
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Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
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I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head.
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Veronica Roth (Divergent (Divergent, #1))
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It was Eric's voice not Simon's, on the recorded message. βLadies, ladies β he said. Though it was the millionth time sheβd heard the recording, Clary couldn't help rolling her eyes. βIf you've reached this message that means our boy Simon is out partying. But please donβt fight among yourselves. Thereβs always enough Simon to go around.β There was a muffled yell, some laughter, and then the long sound of the beep.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments, #3))
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The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
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Eric Micha'el Leventhal
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When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.
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Eric Hoffer
β
Darling, you can nail my ass anytime,β he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table.
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Charlaine Harris
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I hate witches. Humans had the right idea, burning them at the stake.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
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In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.
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Eric Liddell
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You never know what's coming for you.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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For what itβs worth: itβs never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life youβre proud of, and if you find that youβre not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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Eric Hoffer
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Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
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Eric Kripke
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Anger is the prelude to courage.
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Eric Hoffer
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We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.
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Eric Hoffer
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Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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Eric Hoffer
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Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
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Eric J. Hobsbawm
β
Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.
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Eric Berne (Games People Play)
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As I climbed up into the high old bed, the large fly in my personal ointment did the same. Had I actually told him he could get in bed with me? Well, I decided, as I wriggled down under the soft old sheets and the blanket and the comforter, if Eric had designs on me, I was just too tired to care.
"Woman?"
"Hmmm?"
"What's your name?"
"Sookie. Sookie Stackhouse."
"Thank you, Sookie."
"Welcome, Eric.
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Charlaine Harris (Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4))
β
Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eyeing us side by side in the mirror.
Sure is, Girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. "But are you blond all the way down?"
Don't you wish you knew?"
Yes," he said simply.
Well, you'll just have to wonder."
I am," he said. "Blond everywhere,"
I could tell as much from your chest hair."
He raised my arm to check my armpit. "You silly women, shaving your body hair," He said, dropping my arm.
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Charlaine Harris (Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2))
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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
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Eric Hoffer
β
On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon
That night he had a stomach ache.
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Eric Carle (The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
β
The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then enough might survive the rocks to take the citadel. This is essentially the basis of all military thinking.
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Terry Pratchett (Eric)
β
Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it lay with the demons. Using it for your own purposes would be like trying to beat mice to death with a rattlesnake.
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Terry Pratchett (Eric (Discworld, #9; Rincewind, #4))
β
Who cares if you have a girlfriend, anyway?"
"I care," Simon said gloomily. "Pretty soon the only people left without a girlfriend will be me and Wendell the school janitor. And he smells like Windex."
"At least you know he's still available."
Simon glared. "Not funny, Fray."
"There's always Sheila 'The Thong' Bararino," Clary suggested.
"That is who Eric's been dating for the past three months," Simon said. "His advice, meanwhile, was that I ought to just decide which girl in school has the most rockin' bod and ask her out."
"Eric is a sexist pig," Clary said. "Maybe you should call your band The Sexist Pigs."
"It has a ring to it.
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Cassandra Clare (City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1))
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I trudged back to my bedroom and pushed the door open, intending to wash my face or brush my teeth or make some stab at smoothing my hair, because I thought it might make me feel a little less trampled.
Eric was sitting on my bed, his face buried in his hands. He looked up at me as I entered, and he looked shocked. Well, no wonder, what with the very thorough takeover and traumatic changing of the guard.
Sitting here on your bed, smelling your scent,β he said in a voice so low I had to strain to hear it.
Sookie . . . I remember everything.β
Oh, hell,β I said, and went in the bathroom and shut the door. I brushed my hair and my teeth and scrubbed my face, but I had to come out. I was being as cowardly as Quinn if I didnβt face the vampire.
Eric started talking the minute I emerged. βI canβt believe Iββ
Yeah, yeah, I know, loved a mere human, made all those promises, was as sweet as pie and wanted to stay with me forever,β I muttered. Surely there was a shortcut we could take through this scene.
I canβt believe I felt something so strongly and was so happy for the first time in hundreds of years,β Eric said with some dignity. βGive me some credit for that, too.
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Charlaine Harris (From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8))
β
Hereβs what I believe: 1. If you are offended or hurt when you hear Hillary Clinton or Maxine Waters called bitch, whore, or the c-word, you should be equally offended and hurt when you hear those same words used to describe Ivanka Trump, Kellyanne Conway, or Theresa May. 2. If you felt belittled when Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters βa basket of deplorablesβ then you should have felt equally concerned when Eric Trump said βDemocrats arenβt even human.β 3. When the president of the United States calls women dogs or talks about grabbing pussy, we should get chills down our spine and resistance flowing through our veins. When people call the president of the United States a pig, we should reject that language regardless of our politics and demand discourse that doesnβt make people subhuman. 4. When we hear people referred to as animals or aliens, we should immediately wonder, βIs this an attempt to reduce someoneβs humanity so we can get away with hurting them or denying them basic human rights?β 5. If youβre offended by a meme of Trump Photoshopped to look like Hitler, then you shouldnβt have Obama Photoshopped to look like the Joker on your Facebook feed. There is a line. Itβs etched from dignity. And raging, fearful people from the right and left are crossing it at unprecedented rates every single day. We must never tolerate dehumanizationβthe primary instrument of violence that has been used in every genocide recorded throughout history.
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BrenΓ© Brown (Braving the Wilderness: Reese's Book Club: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone)
β
The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.
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Eric Hoffer
β
Sometimes weβre on a collision course, and we just donβt know it. Whether itβs by accident or by design, thereβs not a thing we can do about it. A woman in Paris was on her way to go shopping, but she had forgotten her coat - went back to get it. When she had gotten her coat, the phone had rung, so sheβd stopped to answer it; talked for a couple of minutes. While the woman was on the phone, Daisy was rehearsing for a performance at the Paris Opera House. And while she was rehearsing, the woman, off the phone now, had gone outside to get a taxi. Now a taxi driver had dropped off a fare earlier and had stopped to get a cup of coffee. And all the while, Daisy was rehearsing. And this cab driver, who dropped off the earlier fare; whoβd stopped to get the cup of coffee, had picked up the lady who was going to shopping, and had missed getting an earlier cab. The taxi had to stop for a man crossing the street, who had left for work five minutes later than he normally did, because he forgot to set off his alarm. While that man, late for work, was crossing the street, Daisy had finished rehearsing, and was taking a shower. And while Daisy was showering, the taxi was waiting outside a boutique for the woman to pick up a package, which hadnβt been wrapped yet, because the girl who was supposed to wrap it had broken up with her boyfriend the night before, and forgot.
When the package was wrapped, the woman, who was back in the cab, was blocked by a delivery truck, all the while Daisy was getting dressed. The delivery truck pulled away and the taxi was able to move, while Daisy, the last to be dressed, waited for one of her friends, who had broken a shoelace. While the taxi was stopped, waiting for a traffic light, Daisy and her friend came out the back of the theater. And if only one thing had happened differently: if that shoelace hadnβt broken; or that delivery truck had moved moments earlier; or that package had been wrapped and ready, because the girl hadnβt broken up with her boyfriend; or that man had set his alarm and got up five minutes earlier; or that taxi driver hadnβt stopped for a cup of coffee; or that woman had remembered her coat, and got into an earlier cab, Daisy and her friend wouldβve crossed the street, and the taxi wouldβve driven by. But life being what it is - a series of intersecting lives and incidents, out of anyoneβs control - that taxi did not go by, and that driver was momentarily distracted, and that taxi hit Daisy, and her leg was crushed.
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Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay)