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• Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again

  Bruce Springsteen

  Brother, Heart, Fire

  Song: No Surrender, 1984

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• You have grudged the very fire in your house because the wood cost overmuch!" he cried. "You have grudged life. To live cost overmuch, and you have refused to pay the price. Your life has been like a cabin where the fire is out and there are no blankets on the floor." He signaled to a slave to fill his glass, which he held aloft. "But I have lived. And I have been warm with life as you have never been warm. It is true, you shall live long. But the longest nights are the cold nights when a man shivers and lies awake. My nights have been short, but I have slept warm

  Jack London

  Lying, Night, Men

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.2931, Jack

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• His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

  Jane Austen

  Grace, Persuasion, Politeness

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.216, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Dark, Air

  William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”

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• Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Views, Giving

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• But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Memories, Winter, Fire

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• Once ye made up yer mind to do somethin', 'tis better t'stumble o'er the small hillock of jump-ahead than t'bash yer head on the jagged rocks of did-nothing. Old Woman Nora of Loch Lomand to her three wee granddaughtersone cold evening

  Karen Hawkins

  Rocks, Mind, Three

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• It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

  Lydia Millet

  Eye, Light, Sea

  Lydia Millet (2005). “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart”, p.266, Soft Skull Press

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• Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.

  Robert Harris

  Writing, Years, Hot

  "The Ghost". Book by Robert Harris, September 26, 2007.

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• Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Depression, Cancer, Sadness

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.

  Leonard Cohen

  Lonely, Laughter, Love Is

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• Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

  John Steinbeck

  California, Orange, Goes On

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.27, Hamilton Books

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• He pivoted, gaze following me as I crossed to the shower and turned on the cold water, so it would drown out our conversation without steaming up the room. Great," he muttered."Now they're going to think we're showering together. Maybe we can just tell them we were washing off the crawl space dirt and trying to conserve water.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Thinking, Space, Water

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• at least i'm talkng to myself. instead of giving myself the cold shoulder

  Gregory Maguire

  Giving, Shoulders, Cold Shoulder

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• Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Lying, Gutters, Benefits

  Raymond E. Feist (1993). “Silverthorn”, Spectra

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• Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

  Philip Pullman

  Lonely, Mean, Bears

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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• The problem of why God created the universe still troubles thinking men; but if we cannot know why, we can at least know that He did not bring His worlds into being to meet some unfulfilled need in Himself, as a man might build a house to shelter him against the winter cold or plant a field of corn to provide him with necessary food. The word 'necessary' is wholly foreign to God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winter, Men, Thinking

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• Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stars, Years, Space

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• You're not alone Together we stand I'll be by your side, you know I'll take your hand When it gets cold And it feels like the end There's no place to go You know I won't give in

  Avril Lavigne

  Hands, Your Side, Giving

  Song: Keep Holding On, Album: The Best Damn Thing, 2007

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• The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

  Jim Butcher

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.43, Penguin

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• It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

  James Joyce

  Autumn, Break Off, Weather

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.84, Courier Dover Publications

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• Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.

  Rachel Caine

  Voice, Rude, Lows

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• I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Shadow, Faces

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• Despite Langdon’s six-foot frame and athletic build, Anderson saw none of the cold, hardened edge he expected from a man famous for surviving an explosion at the Vatican and a manhunt in Paris. This guy eluded the French police…in loafers? He looked more like someone Anderson would expect to find hearthside in some Ivy League library reading Dostoyevsky.

  Dan Brown

  Reading, Men, Ivy

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• Think of the sound you make when you let go after holding your breath for a very, very long time. Think of the gladdest sound you know: the sound of dawn on the first day of spring break, the sound of a bottle of Coke opening, the sound of a crowd cheering in your ears because you're coming down to the last part of a race--and you're ahead. Think of the sound of water over stones in a cold stream, and the sound of wind through green trees on a late May afternoon in Central Park. Think of the sound of a bus coming into the station carrying someone you love. Then put all those together.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Letting Go, Cheer, Spring

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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