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• So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.

  George Orwell

  Long, Style, Alive

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Believe, Gold

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Inspirational, Artist, Thinking

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• People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  Bob Dylan

  Music, Ideas, People

  The Guardian, February 13, 1992.

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• Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Retirement, Feet, People

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• I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.

  Janet Napolitano

  Color, Tasks, Looks

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• We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

  Stephen Harper

  Running, Campaigns, Fundamentals

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• The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

  Dean Koontz

  Hands, Pieces, Literature

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• The strongest iron, hardened in the fire, most often ends in scraps and shatterings.

  Sophocles

  Strength, Fire, Iron

  Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brain, Madness

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.

  Graham Greene

  Party, Inspiration, People

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• There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.

  Eddie Vedder

  Years, Forever, Levels

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• My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

  Alice Munro

  Nests, Information, Magpies

  Alice Munro (2010). “Too Much Happiness”, p.174, Random House

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• For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.

  Hilary Mantel

  Running, Book, Together

  "The joys of stationery" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2010.

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• History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

  Subhash Kak

  Imagination, Glue, Evidence

  "The wishing tree". Book by Subhash Kak, 2015.

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• What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.

  MacDonald Harris

  Simple, Ego, Naked

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• Im haunted a little this evening by feelings that have no vocabulary and events that should be explained in dimensions of lint rather than words. Ive been examining half-scraps of my childhood. They are pieces of distant life that have no form or meaning. They are things that just happened like lint.

  Richard Brautigan

  Vocabulary, Childhood, Feelings

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.125, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wearing a scrap of colored cloth around your neck, even though it serves no useful purpose, but which answers to the name of "tie."

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Names, Ties

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• All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

  John Anderson

  People, Democracy, Ignored

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• Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

  Terry Goodkind

  Wind, Roots, People

  Terry Goodkind (2011). “Phantom”, p.365, Macmillan

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• This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Law, Tree, Environmental

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• I spent several years in a north Vietnamese prison camp in the dark, fed with scraps. Do you think I want to do that all over again as vice president of the United States?

  John McCain

  Dark, Thinking, Years

  "News From CNN" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2004.

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• When you find a writer who really is saying something to you, read everything that writer has written and you will get more education and depth of understanding out of that than reading a scrap here and a scrap there and elsewhere. Then go to people who influenced that writer, or those who were related to him, and your world builds together in an organic way that is really marvelous.

  Joseph Campbell

  Reading, People, Understanding

  Joseph Campbell (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.53, New World Library

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• Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

  Roseanne Barr

  Notebook, Girl, Wall

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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