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• .. an emergency stash of Thin Mints. Frickin' Girl Scouts. Those things were way to addictive. They had to be laced with crack." Charlie Davidson Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet

  Darynda Jones

  Girl, Feet, Way

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Lonely, Reflection, Men

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wall, Sleep, Dark

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• We do not ask the mountain's aid to crack a walnut.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mountain, Aids, Walnuts

  Wole Soyinka (1989). “Selected poems”

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• If we aren’t intersectional, some of us, the most vulnerable, are going to fall through the cracks.

  Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

  Fall, Vulnerable, Ifs

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• Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.

  Sheng-yen

  Inspirational, Faith, Spiritual

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• Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after person...May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins.

  Rob Bell

  Jesus, Heart, Winning

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• My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

  Janet Mock

  Fall, Rights, Justice

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• A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

  Terence McKenna

  Information Is Power, Hands, Culture

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• It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later that our tongues produced landslides, that we become caught in the cracks between what we said and what we meant, until we could not find each other, did not trust the words in our own mouths.

  Hannah Kent

  Broken Heart, Weight, Mouths

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Broken Heart, Heart, Broken

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• It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.

  Andrea Gibson

  Rain, Heart, Angel

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• The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.

  Richard Linklater

  Nuts, Stories, Way

  "30 Essential Directing Tips From 30 Master Filmmakers" by Zack Sharf, Slide 5, www.indiewire.com. March 07, 2016.

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• I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

  Koren Zailckas

  Writing, Ideas, Anesthesia

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• I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

  Helen Prejean

  Book, Writing, Character

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• One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.

  Bernard Crick

  Real, Order, Giving

  Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick

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• Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Holiday, Two, Pecans

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

  Gerald Brenan

  Animal, Circus, Language

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• Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Might, Way, Had Enough

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Vin Diesel and I have different approaches to life. We found a respect for one another but we were such opposite ends of the spectrum. The reason why it's worked is because we are so different. I don't know if we necessarily found a stride together because there are certain days I still want to crack him in the head! But he looks at me and there are days he wants to crack me in the head too. Then there are times he'll look at me and say, 'Man, I wish I could be more like you,' and I'm like, 'F**ker, I wish I could be more like you!'

  Paul Walker

  Men, Opposites, Together

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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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