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• No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it off to forced conscious expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Life, Epic, Las Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.89, Vintage

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• Art is created to make us, to make our passage through the world better, fruitful - and I would say that every story in the end, if it is good, tells us something. This is actually what I meant when I said a novelist is a teacher. Which is why I am constantly dealing with "didactic". Now a teacher in the sense I use it is not somebody who has the profession of standing in front of children, with a piece of chalk in his hand scribbling on the blackboard. That is not the teacher I have in mind. The teacher I have in mind is something less tangible.

  Chinua Achebe

  Teacher, Art, Children

  Source: www.ehlingmedia.com

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.

  Stefan Molyneux

  Loyalty, Country, Past

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• There are times of great beauty on a coffee farm. When the plantation flowered in the beginning of the rains, it was a radiant sight, like a cloud of chalk, in the mist of the drizzling rain.

  Isak Dinesen

  Rain, Coffee, Clouds

  Isak Dinesen (1938). “Out of Africa”

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• Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.

  Clive James

  Eye, Two, Miracle

  Clive James (2017). “Clive James On Television”, p.486, Pan Macmillan

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• The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, School, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault - that if you'd tried better, worked harder, it wouldn't have happened? Or do you just chalk it up to circumstance? I know poeple who'll hear about the people who died, and will say that it was God's will. I know people who'll say it was bad luck. And then there's my personal favorite: They were just in the wrong place at hte wrong time. Then again, you could say the same thing about me, couldn't you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Fate, Thinking, People

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• My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memorable, Adventure, Sea

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

  Tobias Smollett

  Ashes, London, Taste

  Tobias Smollett (1808). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random”, p.143

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• You must elect your work; you shall take what your brains can, and drop all the rest. Only so can that amount of vital force accumulate which can make the step from knowing to doing. No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. It is a step out of a chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Men, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• I hesitate to say because it sounds silly, but the first play I did was The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht.

  Justin Kirk

  Silly, Play, Circles

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• Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Feet, Looks, World

  Cornell Woolrich (2007). “Night Has a Thousand Eyes”, p.77, Pegasus Books

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• A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.

  Richard Eder

  Dust, Years, Prettiness

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• I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!

  Karl G. Maeser

  Wall, Truth, Lying

  "The Circle of Honor" by David Brooksby, www.ldsbc.edu. June 05, 2012.

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• I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.

  Michael Rasmussen

  Crazy, Believe, Character

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Instead of staying strong and working through when times are really tough, I usually quit this recipe for failure and start a whole new recipe. So if something is too challenging, I tend to chalk it up as not a good fit, and move on to something else.

  Derek Sivers

  Stay Strong, Moving, Challenges

  "Brave Interview: Derek Sivers". Interview with Margie Warrell, www.business2community.com. July 5, 2015.

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• People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  People, Lines, Hens

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• When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Twenties, Stones

  George Eliot (2012). “The Mill on the Floss”, p.308, Courier Corporation

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• The rock is gonna fall on us," he stood and told the class The professor put his chalk down and peered out through his glasses But he went on and said; "I've seen it, high up on the hill If it doesn't fall this year then very soon it will!

  Harry Chapin

  Fall, Years, Class

  Song: The Rock, Album: Portrait Gallery, 1975

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• I believe you can never change a habit, or create one, with a word or a piece of chalk. You can talk all day, put all sorts of diagrams on the board, but a habit is not going to change. It's a conditional reflex, created by a repetitive act.

  Pete Newell

  Believe, Boards, Pieces

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• We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.

  Kenneth Keniston

  Education, Children, Reading

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• I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and not to their own fear. Imagine you're a girl just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they prefer you dirty and smiling.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Fear, Dirty

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• I was white. Chalk had more color than I did. And quite possibly more personality.

  Darynda Jones

  Color, White, Personality

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Death, Doom, and Detention”, p.19, Macmillan

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