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—Demetri Martin

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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.

—Aidan Chambers

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These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call again but you still don’t come, and they call you by all your names together,...

—Catherynne M.

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I’m, like, really bad at remembering names.

—Dasha Zhukova

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I let that swim around in my aching head for a few minutes – “the arsenal of megadeath…the arsenal of megadeath” – and then, for some reason I can’t quite explain, I began to write....

—Dave Mustaine

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There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of...

—Ernest Hemingway

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Some people think what you’re supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that’s not how it works.

—Kathryn Davis

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Are you sure you want us to keep calling you ‘Six’?””You can say it’s short for something.””For what? Sixty?

—Pittacus Lore

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Young man, names are powerful things. You don’t just go around using them for no reason.

—Rick Riordan

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For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to go look it up to see where it comes from — it is...

—Ammon Shea

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Despite a few exceptions, I have found that Americans are now far more willing to learn new names, just as they’re far more willing to try new ethnic foods… It’s like adding a few new...

—Firoozeh Dumas

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Hey, what is that over there?” and I pointed over your shoulder, and when you turned to look I scribbled my name on the bottom of page one.

—Jarod Kintz

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Like pets, I name my leftover food. Only I name them all after myself, partly so my coworkers won’t eat them in the fridge, but mostly out of vanity.

—Jarod Kintz

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Names are important, you know

—Jonathan Friesen

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Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ‘The Survival of the Fittest.’ These are illustrious names, this...

—Mark Twain

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Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.

—Sarvenaz Tash

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Malavika Vishwanath. Don’t try to say it you’ll just piss me off.

—Peter Clines

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How sweet is that? I know I’m no boy expert, but I have heard entire lectures on reading body language, and I have to say that assuming that a person will have forgotten your name...

—Ally Carter

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There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. ‘Tom, I’d like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.’ These days, Trajedi.

—George Carlin

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I built a Name Machine. It’s a vending machine that dispenses monikers. For 50 cents, now you can be called Don G. Lover, just like your mom.

—Jarod Kintz

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Names.What’s in a name, really? I mean, besides a bunch ofletters or sounds strung together to make a word. Does arose by any other name really smell as sweet? Would themost famous love story in...

—Julie Kagawa

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I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested–intrigued even–by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.

—Kate Morton

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Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”There was something irritatingly self-centered about the cat, Coraline decided. As if it...

—Neil Gaiman

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Our names were made for us in another century.

—Richard Brautigan

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Most of us have nicknames—annoying, endearing, embarrassing.But what about your true name?It is not necessarily your given name. But it is the one to which you are most eager to respond when called.Ever wonder why?Your...

—Vera Nazarian

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Does a cat know he is a cat? Does a dog know he is a dog? Does nature know it is called nature? Does this planet know its name Earth? Does Sun know its name...

—Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

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Italians give their city sexes, and they all agree that the sex for a particular city is quite correct, but none of them can explain why. I love that. London’s middle-aged and male, respectably married...

—David Mitchell

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His last name was Worthless. Or was that just the perfect word to describe him? Shouldn’t our names summarize who we are? If so, I want to be called Al Auttalovetogive.

—Jarod Kintz

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Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)Whispering to myselfWith every step I take,Trying out names, for I knowThere is something yet to be called …..I know it, something up aheadJust around the bendOr over the rise...

—Jay Woodman

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She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was...

—Margaret Drabble

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When you live in Mexico, your houses all have names.

—Jesse Ventura

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And you’re Cameron Wolfe. That’ gotta start meaning somethin’ boy. That’s gotta start churnin’ inside us, making us wanna be someone for those names, and not just another couple of guys who amounted to nothin’...

—Markus Zusak

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Jason scratched his head. “You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

—Rick Riordan

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New Rule: Don’t name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means...

—Bill Maher

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Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

—J.K. Rowling

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My favorite tree is the Joshua tree, which is named after me. Well, it will be, once I change my name to Joshua.

—Jarod Kintz

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Surfers were the ones who named all my songs. They’d yell out the names, and we just kept ’em.

—Dick Dale

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God forgive me. Her Name — I never knew her Name.”Which meant not a Jot to me — and yet my Heart was the Thing that broke.

—M.T. Anderson

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Names are not always what they seem.

—Mark Twain

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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.

—Stevie Ray

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How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “green”?

—Stan Brakhage

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If you name things, then you treat them better.

—Aaron Starmer

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Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. ‘200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore’ is...

—George Carlin

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Who can give a man this, his own name?

—George MacDonald

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It’s not a real name,” she says. “Not one that he’s carried with him always. It’s one he wears like his hat. So he can take it off if he wants.

—Erin Morgenstern

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She ought to call him Benjamin, but it was too intimate, too soft. “My lord?” she ventured, only half serious.”Good, God, no.”She bit back a smile. “Husband?” she took a sip of wine.He grunted. “Are...

—Kristen Callihan

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Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?” Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. “He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus.” Josiah Worthington said, “He looks more...

—Neil Gaiman

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He pulls the gun away from his head and sets it on the coffee table. He wonders who first called it a coffee table. He gets to his feet and walks into the hallway. He...

—Ryan David Jahn

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Glimmer, I hear someone call her – ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are so ridiculous …

—Suzanne Collins

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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

—Ben Aaronovitch

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