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“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”

Elizabeth Hoyt (1970) American writer

Source: Notorious Pleasures

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“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Robert Hass (1941) American poet

Source: Praise

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“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to sharpen.”

Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) British author

Variant: The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”

Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Coda (1979)
Context: There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

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“There is a fullness of time for things. You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet. When to let things take their course.”

Variant: You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.
Source: The Secret Life of Bees

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“It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.”

Variant: Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Source: 1Q84

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“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women

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“Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane…”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
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“[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

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“A girl who bonnets a policeman with an ashcan full of bottles is obviously good wife-and-mother timber.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Source: The Plot That Thickened

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“Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned, it's full of suprises.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

“Look at your body—
A painted puppet, a poor toy
Of jointed parts ready to collapse,
A diseased and suffering thing
With a head full of false imaginings.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

Description: from the The Dhammapada
Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror (2010)

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“Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying”

Haymitch Abernathy and Katniss (pp. 110-111)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "This is your earpiece. I will give you exactly one more chance to wear it. If you remove it from your ear again, I'll have you fitted with this." He holds up some sort of metal headgear that I instantly name the head shackle. "It's an alternative audio unit that locks around your skull and under your chin until it's opened with a key. And I'll have the only key. If for some reason you're clever enough to disable it,"—Haymitch dumps the head shackle on the bed and whips out a tiny silver chip—"I'll authorize them to surgically implant this transmitter into your ear so that I may speak to you twenty-four hours a day."
Haymitch in my head full-time. Horrifying. "I'll keep the earpiece in," I mutter.

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“We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.

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“Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: The Mountains of California

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“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Source: Unknown Book 7074565

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“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”

Dubliners (1914)
Variant: One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Source: "The Dead"

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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
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“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”

Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Leaves of Grass

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“I guess life is full of maybes.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: Girl at Sea

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“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.”

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road