Shouldn Quotes
160 quotes by 141 authors
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Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you…
— Deb Caletti
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On the political as on the economic front it's important not to fall into the "not as bad as" trap. High unemployment isn't O.K. just…
— Paul Krugman
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The last time I had PMS a roast chicken popped out of the oven and danced the Macarena.Krebs had walked in just as the chicken…
— Linda Wisdom
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Someone ought to write a novel about me,†said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?
— Harry Mulisch
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I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an…
— Jeanette Winterson
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They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I…
— Dolly Parton
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I shouldn’t ask you to,†he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.†Naked…
— Nalini Singh
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The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Oh yeah, you’re a regular sage. Shouldn’t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come…
— Jacquelyn Frank
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Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on…
— Veronica Roth
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Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see…
— Fernando Pessoa
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Grown-ups shouldn’t finish books they’re not enjoying. When you’re no longer a child, and you no longer live at home, you don’t have to finish…
— John Irving
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Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t even be saying what I am. But…
— Jojo Moyes
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Very well,†he said with a small sigh. “Ladies today are so very capable. It breaks my hea rt, really.†He leaned in, almost as…
— Julia Quinn
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Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be able to hit as hard as we like,…
— Rick Riordan
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This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have…
— Richard Siken
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But what I can do is paint you a picture of what you’ll never see when you’re with a guy who’s really into you: You’ll…
— Greg Behrendt
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This is a bad story.†“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.†“No, you should,†I say. “But—†“I don’t want there to…
— Emma Donoghue
Who Wrote These Shouldn Quotes
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