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• We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Death, Believe, Glasses

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• Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.

  Ovid

  Violence, Break

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• cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Long, Care, Whole

  Thomas Carlyle, Charles Richard Sanders, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Kenneth J. Fielding (1970). “The collected letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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• I might really have gone round the bend. I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can't be all there but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it's much better than being unhappy and sane.

  Bessie Head

  Mean, Light, Sky

  Bessie Head, Randolph Vigne (1991). “A gesture of belonging: letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979”, Heinemann

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• Don't be an asshole," the guy snapped as he cracked a freshie. "Oh, right, because two in this group would be overkill.

  J.R. Ward

  Two, Guy, Groups

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels”, p.362, Penguin

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• You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told you there were shamble-men in the woods, would you believe them?" My father shook his head. "What if two people told you?" Another shake. Ben leaned forward on his stump. "What if a dozen people told you, with perfect earnestness, that shamble-men were out in the fields, eating-" "Of course I wouldn't believe them," my father said, irritated. "It's ridiculous." "Of course it is," Ben agreed, raising a finger. "But the real question is this: Would you go into the woods?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Father, Real, Believe

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• I might screw up, I might embarrass you, I might yell at you, but I will never, ever stop loving you. You're my first born. The first time I held you... I fell in love so hard it cracked my bones.

  Kristin Hannah

  Loving You, Screw Ups, Might

  Kristin Hannah (2012). “Home Front: A Novel”, p.431, Macmillan

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• He froze as the scent of her hair met him. It was touching his cheek,tickling him. I cant afford this, he thought, but he didnt move, watching her finger trace the new line. "He cracked my mirror,"she said, clearly angry.

  Kim Harrison

  Moving, Mirrors, Hair

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• It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Cutting, Ribs

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.315, Penguin

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Short Notice, Cafes

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm ready for that." Amusement softened his eyes. "I'll try to control where I put my hands, but in the heat of things, who knows what could happen?" I added. Patch grinned. "Sounds promising.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Hands, Trying

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale: The Conclusion to The New York Times Bestselling Hush, Hush Saga”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather." "Yeah." "And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Fighting, Doors

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• If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

  Paul Haggis

  Dream, Fighting, Boxing

  "Million Dollar Baby". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Well I've always said that fame and fortune - the two things that one seems to go after when they go into show business was not at all what it was cracked up to be as far as I was concerned. I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

  Dave Madden

  Cells, Two, Prison

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• Despotism isn't nearly as bad as it's cracked up to be.

  Arabella Weir

  Despotism

  "Auditions are hell, but I never thought that I would have to go through 'casting' to get on Newsnight - and fail" by Arabella Weir, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

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• Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.

  Ovid

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• I must say this now about that first fire. It was magic. Out of dead tinder and grass and sticks came a live warm light. It cracked and snapped and smoked and filled the woods with brightness. It lighted the trees and made them warm and friendly. It stood tall and bright and held back the night.

  Jean Craighead George

  Night, Fire, Light

  Jean Craighead George (1991). “My side of the mountain”

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• There are the class clowns that are disruptive and the kids laugh and you earn the teacher's disdain, I was the kind of class clown that also cracked the teacher up. I was funny in a way that was not dissing the teacher; I was funny just to be funny.

  Jason Mantzoukas

  Teacher, Kids, Class

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fe"  le   o  u' nous battons des me  lodies a'   faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les e  toiles. Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when all the time we are longing to move the stars to pity.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Stars, Moving, Speech

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• I, too, saw God through mud - The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory to their eyes than blood, And gave their laughs more glee than shakes a child.

  Wilfred Owen

  Children, War, Eye

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

  Tony Dorsett

  Growing Up, Dark, Night

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• I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  Damon Lindelof

  New York, Real, Thinking

  "'Prometheus' Writer Damon Lindelof on Why 'Vague' Is Good and the 'Sadistically Cool' Fallout From the 'Lost' Finale". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

  Bob Dylan

  Sky, Mad, Naked

  'Chimes of Freedom' (1964 song)

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• Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be.

  Alafair Burke

  Etiquette, Wells

  Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.303, Macmillan

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• He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, School

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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