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I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
Chuck Palahniuk

Care, Book, Check

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Sick

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James A. Baldwin

Yourself, Enough, Begin

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

Joy, Run, Laundry

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Waiting, Perfect, Keep

It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.
Kin Hubbard

Fun, Keep, Once

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sydney J. Harris

Done, Short, Matter

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Age, Great, Past

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
Elmer Davis

Home, Brave, Free

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Brian Tracy

Successful, Find, Enough

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
E. M. Forster

Nothing, Run, Feeding

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
Clarence Darrow

Last, Forever, Shall

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
Julius Caesar

Enough, Both, Lived

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
James Madison

Best, Through, Country

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice Walker

Money, Yourself, Writing

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
Samuel Butler

Humble, Remain, Meek

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee

Fight, Christian, Accept

Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life.
Jeanne Calment

Life, Smile, Keep

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid

Women, Eludes, Offered

Life should be great rather than long.
B. R. Ambedkar

Life, Great, Rather

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks

Best, Forward, Yourself

In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Justice, Enough, Eyes

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
Jackie Kennedy

Work, Best, Home

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who.
Joan Rivers

Sex, Since, Forgotten

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky

End, May, Means

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.
Lee Iacocca

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
Charles Kingsley

Age, Past, Wrong

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Book, Give

Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
Princess Diana

Person, Cannot, Left

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