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I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen

Jojo Moyes

The most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat….
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Alive Catch Dimension Hair Heard Skin Stand Throat
The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.
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Conspiracy Kind Laugh Spoke
All that counts is the truth. Without it you’re basically just juggling people’s daft ideas.
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All Couple Basically Draft Idea Juggling Just People Truth
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
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Guarantee Once Perilous Read Someone Spirit Told Walkways Wise Worse Writing Written
I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn’t just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen…It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.
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Around Ear Heard Made Music Physical Sense Skin
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
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Day Ditch Five Forward Hundred Least Move Tomorrow Words Write
You’ve done nothing, been nowhere. How do you have the faintest idea what kind of person you are?”
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Been Done Faintest Idea Kind Nothing Nowhere Person
Do you know how hard it is to say nothing? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?
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Atom Hard Know Nothing Opposite Say Strain
You make me happy, even when you’re awful. I would rather be with you – even the you that you seem to think is diminished – than with anyone else in the world.
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Anyone Awful Diminish Else Even Happy Make World
Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.
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Each Friend Kind Other Rest Seen Since Year
You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.
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Actually Duty Fully Get Life Live One Only Possible
…I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn’t have met, and who didn’t like each other much when they did, but who found they were the only two people in the world who could possibly have understood each other.
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Each Found Like Met Much Other People Story Told Understand
“I’m fine. I just…I don’t want to go in just yet. I just want to sit and not have to think about…I just…want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress. Just for a few minutes more.
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Concert Dres Few Girl Just Minute Red Think Want
The thing about being catapulted into a whole new life–or at least, shoved up so hard against someone else’s life that you might as well have your face pressed against their window.
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Against Being Capture Else Face Hard Life might New Somewhere Thing Whole
That old hangover is just toying with you, working out when to bite.
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Bite Hangover Just Old Out Toy Work
But don’t blame me for the food. My wife knows a hundred and one ways to incinerate a cow, and as far as I can tell she’s still experimenting.
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Blame Cow Experiment Food Hundred Incinerate Know Still Way Wife

I worked out what would make me happy, and I worked out what I wanted to do, and I trained myself to do the job that would make those two things happen

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