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• Trans women of color dangerously fall in between the cracks of racial justice, feminist and LGbt movements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Color, Justice

  "A Note on Visibility in the Wake of 6 Trans Women’s Murders in 2015". janetmock.com. February 16, 2015.

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• Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall.

  Jim James

  Dream, Wall, Silly

  "My Morning Jacket" by Carrie O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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• Such letters...from the FDA, are, filled with objectively demonstrable lies, practiced deceptions and deviousness, red herrings, directed misinformation, misdirected information, etc. ...Once FDA-NCI-AMA-ACS...concedes that Laetrile anti-tumor efficacy was indeed even once observed...a permanent crack in bureaucratic armor has taken place.

  Dean Burk

  Lying, Taken, Dark

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• If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

  Dennis Miller

  Reality, Making Love, Looks

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• By day, Venice is a city of museums and churches, packed with great art. Linger over lunch, trying to crack a crustacean with weird legs and antennae. At night, when the hordes of day-trippers have gone, another Venice appears. Dance across a floodlit square. Glide in a gondola through quiet canals while music echoes across the water. Pretend it's Carnevale time, don a mask - or just a fresh shirt - and become someone else for a night.

  Rick Steves

  Art, Night, Venice

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• She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

  Tim Tharp

  Girl, Strong, Reading

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.145, Scholastic UK

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• It is possible for a mathematician to be "too strong" for a given occasion. He forces through, where another might be driven to a different, and possible more fruitful, approach. (So a rock climber might force a dreadful crack, instead of finding a subtle and delicate route.)

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Strong, Rocks, Different

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.144, Cambridge University Press

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• I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls?

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Dream, Hands, Soul

  Jimmy Santiago Baca (2007). “A Place to Stand”, p.102, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The crack of the bat, the sound of baseballs thumping into gloves, the infield chatter are like birdsong to the baseball starved.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Baseball, Bird, Sound

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• He knew by heart every last minute crack on its surface. He had made maps of the ceiling and gone exploring on them; rivers, islands, and continents. He had made guessing games of it and discovered hidden objects; faces, birds, and fishes. He made mathematical calculations of it and rediscovered his childhood; theorems, angles, and triangles. There was practically nothing else he could do but look at it. He hated the sight of it.

  Josephine Tey

  Heart, Games, Rivers

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nuts, Forests, Talent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.454, Penguin

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• When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.

  Deepak Chopra

  Experience, Storm, Want

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.43, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

  Malcolm X

  America, Paradoxical, Ifs

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• We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

  Kathy Acker

  Rotten, World, Legs

  Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

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• Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

  Tori Amos

  Real, Long, Honest

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.299, Crown Archetype

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• Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Pain, Writing

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• When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

  Brian Andreas

  Dark, Self, Laughing

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• I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math.

  Tina Fey

  Inspirational, Funny, Struggle

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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• I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

  Nikki Sixx

  Honesty, Black And White, Color

  Source: lavidaleica.com

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• If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

  Bjork

  Broken, Wake Up, Feels

  Song: It's Not Up To You, Album: Vespertine, 2001

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• The only negative about doing stand-up is that you're on the road by yourself. When you're on the road with comics we just crack each other up every night going, "Can you believe they're paying us to do this? They're crazy.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Crazy, Believe, Night

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, do512.com. May, 2014.

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.

  Daniel Hannan

  Book, Anecdotes, Pages

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• It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

  Irvine Welsh

  Phones, Remember, Payment

  Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.19, Random House

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• I'm a diplomat by nature. I help find the middle ground. I crack a joke and use humour to help resolve potentially vicious situations quickly. It gets things in perspective and helps everyone to see that things aren't as bad as they seem.

  Ronnie Wood

  Perspective, Use, Diplomats

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