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• There was, like, this black hole where the world used to be, and we were both falling toward it. What could we hold on to?

  Rick Yancey

  Fall, Black, World

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.60, Penguin

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• I like to describe my life as a black hole with a little light out there.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Light, Black

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• The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, Life And Death

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• I just felt as though I would never be happy again, and as if I had fallen into a big black hole.

  Brooke Shields

  Black, Mental Illness, Holes

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• This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Black, Eating, Holes

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Highway of Eternity”, p.125, Open Road Media

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• Elvis' disappearing body is like a flashing event horizon at the edge of the black hole that is America today.

  Arthur Kroker

  Redneck, America, Black

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Library

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• Researchers argue that it's of utmost importance to unravel the nature of black holes, lest we someday begin to worship them. Sounds ridiculous, but whole segments of humankind have often revered the unknowable, venerating that which cannot be tested experimentally. Come to think of it, many still do in twenty-first-century society.

  Eric Chaisson

  Thinking, Black, Twenties

  Eric Chaisson, Lola Judith Chaisson (2007). “Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos”, p.101, Columbia University Press

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has no center, only a spreading dead zone of exhaustion, inertia, and brilliant decay.

  Arthur Kroker

  Space, Black, Hollywood

  Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook (1989). “Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene”

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• My Heart and Other Black Holes is alive with intensity, gut-wrenching honesty, moments of humor, and -- of course -- heart. This is an extraordinary debut by a striking new voice in YA fiction that left me in awe and moved beyond measure. Not to be missed.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Honesty, Heart, Voice

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• It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will find an audience thirsting to find new music. Paste Magazine is that place. It's loss would create a very large black hole.

  Wayne Coyne

  Loss, Comforting, Black

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• Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

  Brian May

  Black, Experts, Holes

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• Oh, the self-importance of fading stars. Never mind, they will be black holes one day.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Stars, Self, Black

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• Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

  Richard Saul Wurman

  Data, Anxiety, Black

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• As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.

  Andrea M. Ghez

  Black, Size, Details

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• When people wear our Bolivian knits and see who knitted them, they are excited because they know they are supporting this women's cause in Bolivia. And it shows you that we are all connected. It's not a machine making your clothes in a black hole somewhere. There is a human being behind it, and a community there.

  Maria Cornejo

  People, Community, Black

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

  Matthew Fox

  Stars, Children, Whales

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• Alas, passion is conducive to certain other things because when you have too much passion and you have too much work, you possibly end up having black holes. The danger is too much passion.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Passion, Black, Too Much

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The black hole in democracy is integrity. The great unspoken is integrity. When integrity is not first and foremost, it's quite palpable but not visible. It's always there. Jazz highlights it because musicians and jazz always represented a high level of integrity.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Integrity, Black, Democracy

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black and I seemed to be looking into two black holes.

  David Icke

  Eye, Two, Black

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2006.

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• The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one that looks as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more stairways than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read.

  Terry Pratchett

  Truth, Book, Bad Day

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• Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to touch that negative pole that was sucking you in like a black hole. Or if you crawled out of the desert and found a woman standing with a pitcher of ice water, but she held it out of your reach. Imagine jumping off a building, and then being told not to fall. That's what it feels like to want a drink.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Jumping, Ice Water

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• There was one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole.

  Douglas Adams

  Games, Black, Bars

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• I want you," he muttered. "Get rid of him and take me. The only risk is losing someone you don't have anyway. He's not what you need, Ella. I am" "Unbelievable," I said in disgust. "What's unbelievable?" "Your ego. It's surrounded by its own cloud of antimatter. You're a black hole of...of hubris!

  Lisa Kleypas

  Clouds, Losing Someone, Ego

  Lisa Kleypas (2017). “The Travis Family, The Complete Series: Blue Eyed Devil, Smooth Talking Stranger, Sugar Daddy, and Brown-Eyed Girl”, p.299, Macmillan

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