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• Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Light, Hands, Safety

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Fall, Boards, Careless

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

  Henry Miller

  Dirt, Villa, All Alone

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  Paulo Coelho (2014). “Adultery: A novel”, p.87, Vintage

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• I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

  Billy Collins

  Reading, Light, Circles

  Billy Collins (1988). “The Apple that Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.32, University of Arkansas Press

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• Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dark, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Together, Would Be

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.49, Vintage

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• So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Muffins, Cranberries

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.297, Penguin

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• People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you’re nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, People, Goes On

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• The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

  Markus Zusak

  Sky, Black, Soup

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.24, RH Childrens Books

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• I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

  Zoë Heller

  Crush, Children, Events

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• God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Justice, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.110, First Avenue Editions

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• We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.

  Nicole Krauss

  Moving, Two, Hands

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Population, Structure

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Needs, Want

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• The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Stupid, Dumb

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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• Im sick of the foodies who need every morsel that goes into their mouth to be a Picasso painting, a Giacometti sculpture, a Proust novel, evoking the world with each crumb.

  Jessi Klein

  Sick, Needs, Sculpture

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• Little I ask
  And that little is not granted."
  There are few crumbs
  In this world any more.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  World, Charity, Littles

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• Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Dog, Self Esteem, Vanity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.17

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• The only ones who ever come here from your lands are the minstrels, and the lovers, and the mad. And you don't look like much of a minstrel, and you're— pardon me for saying so lad, but it's true— ordinary as cheese crumbs. So it's love if you ask me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Land, Mad, Ordinary

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• Never settle for the crumbs of life.

  Og Mandino

  Never Settle, Settling

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

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• Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Interesting, Political

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• If I shouldn't be alive
  When the Robins come,
  Give the one in Red Cravat,
  A Memorial crumb.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Giving, Memorial

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

  Robert Crumb

  Long, People, Stories

  Interview with Steve Bell, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2005.

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• When you create something you leave little crumbs of stuff that you've experienced or music that you've listened to.

  Panda Bear

  Littles, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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