Stephanie Perkins Quotes
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
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Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.
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We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the room, doing my best to keep my composure, then back to Jamie again. She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I’d ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.
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Missionary activity is not so much the work of the church as simply the Church at work.
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How could I have ever for a moment believed I wasn't in love with him?
