Top 100 Kinsella Quotes
#1. W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer.
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#2. Books are educational; so you can buy as many as you want. Sophie Kinsella, shopping at the Limelight Marketplace
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#3. My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kinsella it's fast, all-out comedies, such as the 'Shopaholic' series.
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#4. MISS KINSELLA'S NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS SUPPLIED BY: Rolo & Mint Aero
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#5. She says screens are the cigarettes of our age. They're toxic, and we're only going to realize the damage they're doing when it's too late.
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#6. I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.
W.P. Kinsella
#7. These corners are getting a bit bulky." Mum looks consideringly at the catalog. "Maybe we should fold down if we're not interested in the page.
Sophie Kinsella
#8. Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.
Stephan Kinsella
#9. It hasn't snowed like this for years. Real, proper snow. Dickensian snow,
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#10. Why did he have to choose tonight to turn into the perfect husband?
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#11. There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.
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#12. Most people underestimate eyes. They're infinite. You look someone straight in the eye and your whole soul can be sucked out in a nanosecond. Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.
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#13. I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn't exist anymore.
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#14. I never realized he was such a good actor. He should go into politics.
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#15. Everyone keeps saying I'll pick it up. But what if I don't? I did algebra for three
years, and I never picked that up.
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#16. Mind your own Brazilian! The words fly out of my mouth before I can stop them. Oops.
OK. The trick when you've said something embarrassing by mistake is to pretend nothing happened.
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#17. I have to absorb the new season like sunlight, letting it turn my winter skin pink and then brown. I must stuff myself with lore and statistics until my fingers ooze balm.
W.P. Kinsella
#18. Love is all that counts in this crazy, mixed-up world ...
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#20. He said when you use your brain, no-one comes near you for ingenuity
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#21. You don't need to change one hair. One freckle. One little toe. And if its me thats made you feel you should do this..then there's something wrong with me. -Luke Brandon
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#22. I had no idea you could be a specialist at awkward conversations
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#23. Material possessions aren't important to me," I say breathlessly. "All that matters to me is yoga.
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#24. Cause The one thing that I learned from dad besides the cheap stuff fucks you up as much as the stuff on the top shelf does is it doesn't matter what you say or think, or wish you said but didn't say- just what you do.
Mike Kinsella
#25. It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.
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#26. In a market economy with the division and specialization of labor, people use others as means to achieve their ends. This is the essence of market cooperation.
Stephan Kinsella
#27. I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?
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#28. Is tall and rangy, with muscled thighs that start three inches apart. She looks like she probably runs up a mountain every day and doesn't even know what a KitKat is.
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#29. My great moment of triumph ... It's all turned to dust. I wasn't the heroine of the hour. I was the thoughtless, stupid villain.
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#30. I've confromted enough assholes in my time. They never realize they're assholes. Not once. Whatever you say.
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#31. Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
W.P. Kinsella
#32. I'd probably still be a financial journalist now if it weren't for writing novels. Mmm. Fun! I'm much happier writing novels!
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#33. This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.
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#34. Like most of us, I'm used to juggling about 52 roles in life. Wife. Mother. Sister. Friend. Author. Sometimes I feel a bit 'multiple-personality'.
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#35. It was in the forest. No one saw it or heard it. So did it actually happen?
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#36. I hesitate a moment. Wearing his dressing gown seems a bit cutesy. A bit Let me put on your great big manly shirt and allow the sleeves to flap endearingly around my fingers. But I have no choice.
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#37. If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.
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#38. Not a cute little whimper. Not a plaintive little wail. A full-throated, piercing "This Woman Has Kidnapped Me, Call the Cops" scream.
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#40. I think talking to other people can bring its own unhelpful baggage. Sometimes you just need to talk to an entity. The void. Your God.
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#42. To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
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#43. Take your future into your own hands. Make it happen. Life is a coloring book, but you have the pens.
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#44. It's easy to discount family. It's easy to take them for granted. But your family is your history. Your family is part of who you are.
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#45. The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.
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#47. I can't move. I'm paralyzed in the middle of the street, like the donkey in that Aesop's fable who couldn't choose between the bales of hay. They'll find me in years to come, still frozen to the spot, clutching my credit card.
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#48. Every time I mention her, Magnus says, "Are you two getting along?" in raised, hopeful tones, like we're endangered pandas who need to make a baby.
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#49. I'm Cinderella. No, I'm better than Cinderella, because she only got the prince, didn't she? I'm Cinderella with fab teeth and a shit-hot job.
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#50. I can never resist telling people good news. I mean, why not brighten someone else's life too?
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#51. A cold dismay creeps over me. Oh okay, maybe I did once kind of pretend I had a stalker. Which I shouldn't have done. But I mean, just because you invent one tiny stalker - that doesn't make you a complete nut case, does it?
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#52. Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
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#53. Bex ... why did you buy an inflatable canoe?'
'It's for you to lie on. Or something.'
'And a watering can?'
'I couldn't find a plant spray.'Breathlessly I start shoving bags into the taxi.
'But why do I need a plant spray?'
'Look,it wasn't my idea, OK?' I say defensively.
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#54. Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush.
I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
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#56. I wonder if Luke would take a hit of tomato ketchup for me. I might ask him later. Just casually.
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#57. Every instinct in me wants to text someone OMG, I've lost my phone! but how can I do that without a bloody phone?
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#58. You sound like Darth Vader," I say bluntly. Elinor doesn't even flinch. "So be it," she says, and sips her water. That is totally a Darth Vader thing to say. Next she'll be ordering the destruction of a thousand innocent Jedi younglings.
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#59. And the truth is, the country is very cool. It's absolutely the new town.
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#60. I know exactly what Luke's doing. He's trying to push me and Suze together so we can make up. Which is really sweet of him. But I feel like a panda being told to mate with another panda that clearly doesn't fancy me.
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#61. I need good coffee!" I say in horror. "It's my only luxury!"
I can't live with my parents and drink bad coffee. It's not humanly possible.
Becky talking about cutting back with her parents.
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#62. No!" Linus sounds really shocked. Shocked, embarrassed, discomfited. Kind of mortified. Like he can't believe I would say that. (I'm getting all this from one syllable, you understand.)
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#63. The thing about lying to your parents is, you have to do it to protect them.
It's for their own good.
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#65. Men who want to get married
propose. You don't need to read the signs. They propose and that's the sign.
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#66. But you can't stay with people because of guilt. Or because they can drive a speedboat.
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#67. Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.
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#68. I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do.
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#69. Don't look back once, the entire time I'm talking to her. But I can feel his eyes on me all the time. Like sunshine.
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#70. Don't think about it. Don't think about what could have been. It's too unbearable.
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#71. I look along the endless line, squinting in the sunshine. I'm twenty-nine years old. I can go anywhere. Do anything. Be anyone I like. "There's no rush," I say at last, and reach up to kiss him again.
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#72. The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.
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#73. I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star ... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.
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#74. Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!
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#75. Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.
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#76. You need some accessories. Some businesswoman-type accessories." "Like what? A Filofax?
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#77. No wife wants to hear that her husband is less than perfect.
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#78. Plus, you know, the buffet really is excellent. And my appetite has greatly recovered after a few cups of coffee. In fact, I've decided to switch from the 5:2 diet to the "get the most from your buffet because it's costing you a fortune" diet.
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#79. Because it's human nature to hope for impossible things.
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#80. I bet he never goes on YouTube. He's too busy. It's only tragic cases like you and me who are always online.
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#81. In fact, her whole demeanor is calmer. It's creepy. It's like she's had Botox of the soul.
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#82. We're all to driven by materialism. Obsessed with success. With money. With trying to impress people who'll never be impressed.
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#83. It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be ...
Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
I'm old.
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#84. He is a terrible human being. He's a shit. So don't dwell on him. Flush him out of your life. Gone.
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#85. I am not a label snob and have learned that the thrill of shopping can be just as great, if not more so, when you find a bargain.
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#86. It is the same game that Moonlight Graham played in 1905. It is a living part of history, like calico dresses, stone crockery, and threshing crews eating at outdoor tables. It continually reminds us of what was, like an Indian-head penny in a handful of new coins.
W.P. Kinsella
#88. We all fail to appreciate each day just how much we already possess. Light, air, freedom, the companionship of friends.
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#89. I honestly feel as though I've run an obstacle course to get here. In fact, I think, they should list shopping as a cardiovascular activity. My heart never beats as fast as it does when I see a "reduced by 50 percent" sign.
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#90. Honestly, it's so easy to get what you want from people if they think you're a psycho.
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#91. Every woman in the world sometimes thinks about shoes in the middle of sex. It's a well-known fact.
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#92. You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.
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#93. Everyone knows the first rule of business is "Look good during confrontations." Or if it isn't, it should be.
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#95. People like that, the more you try to threaten them, the more aggressive they get. We need to coax him. Persuade him. Like that story about the man in his cloak - the wind can't blow it off him but the sun makes him take it off of his own accord.
Sophie Kinsella
#97. Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
W.P. Kinsella
#98. Is your life ruined? Is it such a disaster for people to know the truth about you?
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#99. I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.
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#100. Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next.
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