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• His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there are more sound ones than sorry, for he is quick at his work and a trifle dim in the eye.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sorry, Humorous, Eye

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The White Company: Sherlock Holmes Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Emotional, House

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• I think I've never left my house to take a plane without writing my will. There must be about 30 wills in my drawers, everywhere, in the kitchen. Everywhere, I have wills because I write wills more easily than I write love letters.

  Sophie Calle

  Writing, Thinking, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Many of the artifacts of my house had become potential devices for my own destruction: the attic rafters (and an outside maple or two) a means to hang myself, the garage a place to inhale carbon monoxide, the bathtub a vessel to receive the flow from my opened arteries. The kitchen knives in their drawers had but one purpose for me.

  William Styron

  Mean, Knives, Two

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

  Martha Grimes

  Dog, Thinking, Mind

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• All the unhurried day / Your mind lay open like a drawer of knives.

  Philip Larkin

  Knives, Mind, Lays

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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• Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Sometimes, Knows

  "Look back in anger" by James Meek, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2007.

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• I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

  Victoria Chang

  Character, Pride, Dust

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• In all of these years, you know, the Obamacare bill itself had been written for 30 years and it's a Democrat wet dream. They've had it in a drawer modifying it for decades waiting for somebody to come along and actually implement it and sign it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Years, Obamacare

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• He also knows what king of protein I like, what T-shirts I like, how I like my dry cleaning to be done. He also knows how I like my stuff folded and put away into drawers.

  The Miz

  Kings, Wwe, Dry Cleaning

  "Banking on The Miz". Skysports Interview, www.skysports.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I've never really been associated with the hackers very much. I am sympathetic to them. I understand how their mind works. It's like a child that is born and wants to explore every little - open up every little drawer there is and find out how the world works.

  Steve Wozniak

  Children, Mind, Want

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• The manuscript in the drawer either rots or ripens.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Manuscripts

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• To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

  Helen Rowland

  Giving Up, Mean, Men

  Helen Rowland (1909). “Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”

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• It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

  Margaret Atwood

  Curiosity, Fiction, Want

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• Where's my tax form? Where's the file that's supposed to hold my W-2 form and interest statement? Where's the mileage log I specifically asked be kept last year?? Where's the monthly check summary? And who's been stuffing Visa receipts in the aluminum foil drawer??!! How embarrassing. I'm surrounded by idiots and I'm the only one in the office.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Years, Office, Aluminum Foil

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• Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.

  Janet Malcolm

  Taken, Thinking, Views

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes”, p.12, Granta Books

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• I've always noticed that Old Families, like plumbers and barbers and possibly drummers and detectives, seem to have some kind of reciprocity arrangement in the South. Members of the freemasonry could move anywhere ... and still operate cozily in the local Old Family top drawer.

  Celestine Sibley

  Moving, Detectives, Kind

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• When I was nine, I asked my Dad, ‘Can I have your movie camera? That old, wind-up 8-millimeter movie camera that’s in your drawer?’ And he goes, ‘Sure, take it.’ And I took it, and I started making movies with it, and I started being as creative as I could, and never once in my life did my parents ever say, ’ What you’re doing is a waste of time.’ Never….. I know there are kids out there that don’t have that support system. So, if you’re out there and you’re listening, listen to me: If you wanna be creative, get out there and do it. It’s not a waste of time.

  Michael Giacchino

  Dad, Kids, Support Systems

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• Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall,the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.

  Jandy Nelson

  Love, Wall, Book

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• Compliments of congratulation are always kindly taken, and cost nothing but pen, ink and paper. I consider them as draughts upon good breeding, where the exchange is always greatly in favor of the drawer.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Congratulations, Taken, Ink And Paper

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• The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

  Harlan Ellison

  Writing, Mean, Wish

  "Harlan Ellison, Part Two". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 08, 2008.

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• Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Writing, Sleep

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.51

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• I'm a horrible drawer. I have no artistic ability in my hands.

  Katharine McPhee

  Hands, Artistic Ability, Horrible

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• My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

  Carrie Fisher

  Life Is Like, Lasts, Forgotten

  Carrie Fisher (2008). “Postcards from the Edge”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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