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• Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

  David Bowie

  Suicide, Self Harm, Insanity

  Song: Young Americans

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• The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Running, Pain, Memories

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• We break our huddle and Eight immediately transforms into one of his massive avatars. His handsome features melt away, replaced by the snarling face and golden mane of a lion. He grows to about twelve feet, ten arms sprouting out of his sides, each of them tipped with razor-sharp claws. Nine whistles through his teeth. 'Now we're talking,' Nine says. 'One of your parents must've been a chimæra. Probably your mom.

  Pittacus Lore

  Mom, Eight, Talking

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• Day appears again. This time he leans in close enough for his hair to brush, light as silk, against my cheeks. He pulls me towards for a long kiss. The scene vanishes, replaced abruptly by a stormy night and Day struggling through the rain, blood dripping from his leg and leaving a trail behind him. He collapses onto his knees in front of Razor before the whole scene disappears again.

  Marie Lu

  Rain, Struggle, Kissing

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• Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

  John Lydon

  Forgiveness, Turn The Other Cheek, Turns

  "NME's Rock 'n' Roll Years". Book by John Tobler, 1992.

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• He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

  Flann O'Brien

  Goodbye, Suicidal, Home

  "Myles before Myles: a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan".

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• These words are razors to my wounded heart.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Wounded

  William Shakespeare, Nikolaus Delius, Charles Symmons (1854). “The complete works of William Shakespeare: The text regulated by the old copies and by the recently discovered folio of 1632, containing early manuscript emendations. With notes, selected and original, a copious and almost new glossary, the poet's life and portrait”, p.612

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• When I have a match to play, I begin to relax as soon as I wake up. Everything I do, I do slow and easy. That goes for stroking the razor, getting dressed, and eating my breakfast. I'm practically in slow motion. By the time I'm ready to tee off, I'm so used to taking my time that it's impossible to hurry my swing.

  Walter Hagen

  Golf, Swings, Play

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• I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

  Thornton Wilder

  Life, Country, Struggle

  1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 3.

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the blood rushes out happily in the warm water as if kin to it, the same tender substance. Rising a new person transformed with an icy sense of error I go to the sink and turn on cold water which is not friendly to blood. The cut is deeper than imagined.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Suicide, Mistake, Self Harm

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• Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.

  Tom Waits

  Ocean, Rocks, Hands

  Song: There's Only Alice, Album: Alice, 2002

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• The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

  John Updike

  Cutting, Boys, Hair

  John Updike (2012). “Tossing and Turning”, p.53, Knopf

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• As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, So wit is by politeness sharpest set; Their want of edge from their offence is seen, Both pain us least when exquisitely keen.

  Edward Young

  Pain, Oil, Want

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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• As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Morning, Yoga, Mean

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.56, Shambhala Publications

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Block, Vulgarity Is, Endeavor

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

  Herman Koch

  Regret, Mouths, Sometimes

  Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• There's no razor in candy. If for no other reason, it doesn't make financial sense. It's not fiscally prudent. How much does a piece of candy cost - like, a penny and a half? An apple's like 15 cents? Anybody here bought a Mach 3 replacement cartridge recently? They're so expensive, they don't even keep them on the shelf. You know, you have to ask the people behind the counter. I feel like I'm trying to buy enriched plutonium or something.

  Arj Barker

  Apples, People, Trying

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• If you have evidence that C1 is a cause of E, and no evidence as to whether C2 is also a cause of E, then C1 seems to be a better explanation of E than C1&C2 is, since C1 is more parsimonious. I call the version of Ockham's razor used here "the razor of silence." The better explanation of E is silent about C2; it does not deny that C2 was a cause. The problem changes if you consider two conjunctive hypotheses.

  Elliott Sober

  Two, Silence, Doe

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Father, Eye

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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• There are songs about abortions, about slashing your arms with razors, about imagining your own funeral in New Orleans, about rock stars cheating on their wives, sex.

  Courtney Love

  Cheating, Song, Sex

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• I don't know if you hear this often but I would say The Razor's Edge (loosely based on a great W. Somerset Maugham novel). This was Bill Murray's first dramatic role so everyone thought he stunk in this deep character but I thought he and the movie were great. The movie takes place over decades so you see Murray's character go from goofy playboy all the way to wiser, older person. It's basically a movie version of the journey I described.

  Lewis Schiff

  Character, Journey, Roles

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.

  John Wolcot

  Music, Towns, Cried

  John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.136

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• The labyrinth of Ephebe is ancient and full of one hundred and one amazing things you can do with hidden springs, razor-sharp knives, and falling rocks.

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Fall, Rocks

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.160, Random House

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• He who knows how to shave the razor, will know how to erase the eraser.

  Henri Michaux

  Erase, Know How, Knows

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