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• political
• giving
• dumb

If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality,... David Foster Wallace

• eyes
• work
• pretty

Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads. James Patterson

• running
• fast
• taking

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! Lewis Carroll

• baby
• look
• asked

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta. Suzanne Collins

• die
• sentimental
• sentimentality

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• get
• gets
• you

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it. Danielle Steel

• waiting
• moments
• firsts

I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready. Nicholas Sparks

• game
• saying
• leaving

Say Say Say. What you want. But don't play games. With my affection. Take take take. What you need. But don't leave me. With no direction Michael Jackson

• god
• saying
• takes

Take what you want, says God, but pay for it Agatha Christie

• writing
• evening
• wellness

Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well. Agatha Christie

• feeling
• acted
• feelings

Act, Zachary Martin Glass, when and where you want to, since you feel you must, but do it with all your might. J. D. Salinger

• knowing
• wants
• making

It's the wanting to know that makes us matter. Tom Stoppard

• couple
• wedding
• nurse

No couple buying wedding rings wants to be reminded that someday one of them will have to accept the other one's ring from a nurse or an undertaker. Anne Tyler

• men
• attract
• wanting

Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. James Allen

• mistake
• understanding
• empathy

I think it's easy to mistake understanding for empathy - we want empathy so badly. Maybe learning to make that distinction is part of growing up. It's hard and ugly to know somebody can understand you without even liking you. Thomas Harris