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1402 Forced quotes by 1107 unique authors
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Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's…
— Suzanne Collins
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Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in my hand?” “No.”…
— Gaelen Foley
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Shogo looked at Shuya and Noriko. "The winner's forced to transfer to another school where he or she is ordered not to mention the game…
— Koushun Takami
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It make one's mouth hurt to speak with such forced merriment.
— David Sedaris
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Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying…
— Haruki Murakami
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I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I…
— Elizabeth I
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Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to…
— Ken Wilber
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Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you." "Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before." "Are you…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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It seemed as if some subtle current of recognition had passed between them... not as if they had met before... but as if they had…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain…
— Lawrence Durrell
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The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.
— Walter Mosley
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I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for eight or nine…
— Rachel Cohn
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Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself." He offered me his arm, which I latched onto…
— P. C. Cast
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I doubt you’ve ever been forced to nonstop bang a woman hyped up on the undead voodoo version of Spanish fly, have you?” His chuckle…
— Jeaniene Frost
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The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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She glanced up at him, and in that moment he pulled his wet shirt over his head. She forced her mind blank. Blank as a…
— Kristin Cashore
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Turn," Liz said, trying not to hide her impatience at being forced to read at non-speed-of-light pace.
— Ally Carter
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I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to…
— Frank Herbert
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For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more…
— Paul Auster
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I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her…
— Charles de Lint
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