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• However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals.

  Peter Weiss

  Business, Trying, Midst

  Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.63, A&C Black

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• The seductiveness of baseball is that almost everyone with an abiding interest in it knows exactly how it should be played. And secretly believes that he could do it, if only God had seen fit to make him just a little bit less clumsy.

  George V. Higgins

  Baseball, Believe, Abiding

  George V. Higgins (1990). “The progress of the seasons: forty years of baseball in our town”, Prentice Hall

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• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Lonely, Science, Typewriters

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• I'm really clumsy, so I trip and fall a lot. And every time I perform in New York my pants split onstage. That's happened four or five times. Every time, I pull on my mom's jeans as fast as I can, so there we are, standing backstage without our pants on. It's like a curse.

  Jessica Simpson

  Mom, New York, Fall

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• To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Art, Night

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• The living all assemble! What's the cue?--
  Do what the clumsy partner wants to do!

  Theodore Roethke

  Desire, Want, Partners

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.161, Anchor

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• Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Health, Illness, Aids

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• A way of describing performances that I admire is that there is an absence of careerism. It's a clumsy way of describing it but it sort of does it for me.

  Bill Nighy

  Doe, Way, Absence

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Stacking shelves in a supermarket. The reason I didn't like it is because I'm very clumsy. We had a floor polisher you'd push up and down the aisles, and klutz me would always knock the bottles over in the drinks aisle. Unsurprisingly I got fired.

  Peter Andre

  Bottles, Drink, Reason

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Dog, Smart, Humans

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• Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x; it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.

  Hermann Weyl

  Couple, Book, Math

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• There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

  Stanley Crawford

  Darkness, Elements, Earth

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.8, UNM Press

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• The most able seems clumsy.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Able, Seems

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• Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction.

  Laozi

  Compassion, Sea, Taoism

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• History seems to be so clumsy.

  Robert Johnson

  Seems

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• It has long been my personal view that the separation of practical and theoretical work is artificial and injurious. Much of the practical work done in computing, both in software and in hardware design, is unsound and clumsy because the people who do it have not any clear understanding of the fundamental design principles of their work. Most of the abstract mathematical and theoretical work is sterile because it has no point of contact with real computing.

  Christopher Strachey

  Real, Views, Long

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• People expect it to be easy because there you are, out there, doing the thing that you want and making lots of money out of it. But, you know, I'm not that smooth. I can get clumsy around certain people. Like if I were to sit down and think, 'OK, I'm really famous, how am I going to conduct myself in public?' I wouldn't know who that person would be! It would be a lot easier if I could, but I can't.

  Kristen Stewart

  Thinking, People, Would Be

  "Kristen Stewart’s Vogue Cover". Interview with Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. September 4, 2012.

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• I writhe when I see myself on the screen. I'm such a dreadfully clumsy hulking image. I say to myself, "Why doesn't he get off? Why doesn't he get off?" I mean, I look like such an idiot. Some fat awkward thing dredged up from some third-rate drama company. I must stop thinking about it, otherwise I shan't be able to go on working.

  Peter Sellers

  Drama, Mean, Thinking

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

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• A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.

  Magha

  Men, Arrows, Mind

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• Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.

  Edward T Welch

  Light, Walks, Turns

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• Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.

  Hugh Laurie

  Thinking, Boxing, Soul

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

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• The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

  John Steinbeck

  Art, Writing, Crafts

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

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• I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

  Frida Kahlo

  Leaving, Humans

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• The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Cutting, Artist

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