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• I know all about violence and physical abuse because my first husband used to beat me severely when he got drunk. Once, I can remember coming home from a party and walking up our vast marble staircase at the Fifth Avenue house while he was striking me. I thought, If I just gave him one shove down the staircase I would be rid of him forever.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Husband, Party, Home

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

  Ruth Rendell

  Interesting, London, Very Interesting

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• I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

  James D. Watson

  Lonely, Fun, Science

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• In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Home, Swimming, Squares

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• But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one of the most astonishingly intelligent and professional pieces of strategy by the fire services, they succeeded in protecting the vast majority of the building, apparently by forming a human wall of firefighters up the west end of the main staircase and containing the fire.

  Muriel Gray

  Wall, Intelligent, Fire

  "Glasgow School of Art fire: 'iconic and unique library is lost'" by Kevin Rawlinson, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2014.

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• British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

  Ben Dreyfuss

  Views, Rooms, Ponds

  "We Love America, and You Should, Too". Interview With James West, Ben Dreyfuss, www.motherjones.com. July 3, 2015.

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• Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed as a person. They think I'm a nonperson, just a name that signifies a tangled web of pipes or wires or strings that suggest machinery. My name to them is like a spiral staircase, veal cutlets, barber's itch — terms that give you an immediate picture of what they mean.

  Rube Goldberg

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  "Rube Goldberg: Inventions!".

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• I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

  Imogene Coca

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  "1950's TV Star Imogene Coca Dies at 92" by Donna Tommelleo, abcnews.go.com.

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• I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!

  Anne Frank

  Running, Fall, Worry

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.180, Bantam

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• I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.

  Joe Strummer

  Hate, Kids, Parent

  "My Dinner with Strummer". Interview with Earl Chalmers, Rude International, March 1999.

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• Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

  James Lee Burke

  Fall, Design, Junk

  James Lee Burke (2008). “The Tin Roof Blowdown”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• I would always fall down the big main staircase in our house. My favorite thing in the world was to pretend to be horribly killed at the top of it, and to fall dramatically down to the bottom of it.

  David Hyde Pierce

  Fall, House, World

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• Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Beautiful, Gun, Player

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• The stairway to the ministry is not a grand staircase but a back stairwell that leads down to the servants’ quarters.

  Edmund Clowney

  Ministry, Quarters, Servant

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• William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his father slowly descending toward him. When he reached the bottom, his father walked over, looked him in the eye and said: “You know those poems you're writing? They're no good.”

  Eliot Weinberger

  Dream, Father, Writing

  Eliot Weinberger (2007). “An Elemental Thing”, p.115, New Directions Publishing

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• To have that concentration to act well is like lugging things up staircases in your brain. I think that’s a thing people don’t understand. It is that exhausting. If you’re doing it well, if you’re concentrating the way you need to, if your will and your concentration and emotional and imagination and emotional life are all in tune, concentrated and working together in that role, that is just like lugging weights upstairs with your head... And I don’t think that should get any easier.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Emotional, Thinking, Imagination

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  Sarah Vowell

  Dream, Retirement, Sunset

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 06, 2010

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• There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

  Norwood Russell Hanson

  Running, Science, Light

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• I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

  Barbara Stanwyck

  Girl, Trying, Brooklyn

  "Back in the saddle: essays on Western film and television actors". Book by Gary A. Yoggy, 1998.

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• The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.

  Clive Barnes

  Mother, Dying, Familiar

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• I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

  John Lydon

  Perfect, Care, Embodiment

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• Safety is an illusion, Costis. A Thief might fall at any time, and eventually the day must come when the god will let him. Whether I am on a rafter three stories up or on a staircase three steps up, I am in my god's hands. He will keep me safe, or he will not, here or on the stairs.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Fall, Hands, Safety

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• I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.

  Daniel Craig

  Good Friend, Dark, People

  "Daniel Craig on Bond, growing up and fading out in Hollywood". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. April 16, 2008.

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• "Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Men, Details

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 21, 2003.

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