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• People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Flower, People

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.

  Gordon Willis

  Believe, Cutting, Editors

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• This sounds like a brag, but I know how to make good fried rice. I learned in college. There are two secrets - take the rice after you cook it and let it get cold in the fridge. Then cook the egg like you're making a fried egg and just before it's done, dump the rice and veg on it and swirl it around.

  Patton Oswalt

  College, Eggs, Two

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• ... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.

  Edith Wharton

  Book, House, Library

  Edith Wharton (2013). “A Backward Glance”, p.216, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Then if he's sore with me, let him dump my ass. That will just give me more time to be a genius.

  Sheila Heti

  Women, Giving, Genius

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• I used to think religion was just more of the same thing. Dump responsibility on the big guy. Now I see an importance in that. It's a relief to accept that not everything is under your control.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Responsibility, Thinking, Guy

  "Among the wild things" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2000.

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• Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

  Al Gore

  Today, Environmental Pollution, Air Quality

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• If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

  Sylvia Earle

  Yards, Lasts, Damage

  "Her Deepness" by Wallace White, www.newyorker.com. July 3, 1989.

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• I will not vote for a candidate who thinks you can 'pray away the gay,' I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that he has more rights to my uterus than I do, I will not vote for a candidate who thinks that it's okay to dump toxic waste in the ocean.

  Sophia Bush

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  "Sophia Bush disappointed in Obama, scared of GOP field" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

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• it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

  Paul Auster

  Life, Hands, Ideas

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have. Burn the Amazon rain forests. Pump chlorofluorocarbons straight up to gobble the ozone. Open the dump valves on supertankers and uncap offshore oil wells. I wanted to kill all the fish I couldn't afford to eat, and smother the French beaches I'd never see. I wanted the whole world to hit bottom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Beautiful, Beach, Rain

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.

  Christopher Pike

  Years, Making Love, Soul

  Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Want me to warm up the sauce?” “Do we do that? I mean, it’s in a jar, right? Can’t you just dump it over the pasta?” “Well, you can, but it tastes better if you warm it up.” “Oh.” Eve sighed. “This is complicated. No wonder I never cook.

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Pasta, Want

  Rachel Caine (2007). “The Dead Girls' Dance: The Morganville Vampires”, p.37, Penguin

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• I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.

  Lisa Lutz

  Two, People, Annoyed

  Lisa Lutz (2008). “Curse of the Spellmans: Document #2”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Fate, Men

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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• That game was dedicated to Rick Adelman. I'm at home, in the bathroom, trying to take a dump, flipping through the channels and he's complaining (on TV) about how I'm stepping over the line. I can't even do a No. 2 in peace. I'm sitting there grunting at 12:30 at night. Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Home, Night

  "Shaq's Top 10 NBA Finals quotes" by Marc Stein, www.espn.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I suppose I knew on an intellectual level that graves weren't especially made for getting out of. I mean, you start with a hermetically sealed casket and then you dump six feet of dirt on top of it. Over time the earth gets compacted, which can't make it easy to dig through. So even if you're a very angry and determined zombie, you've kind of got your work cut out for you just escaping from the grave.

  C.E. Murphy

  Mean, Cutting, Escaping

  C.E. Murphy (2009). “Walking Dead”, p.253, Harlequin

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• I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" it's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their fucking world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking.

  Rick Remender

  Mistake, Thinking, Cooking

  "[Interview] Rick Remender Talks Parallel Universes In ‘Black Science’". Interview with Lonnie Nadler, bloody-disgusting.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Rocky Marciano stood out in boxing like a rose in a garbage dump.

  Rocky Marciano

  Boxing, Rose, Garbage

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• Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Speech, Way, Garbage

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1214, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.

  George R. R. Martin

  Children, Thinking, Novelists

  YouTube Channel "Talks at Google"/"George R.R. Martin", www.youtube.com. August 06, 2011.

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• It was clear they weren’t getting any information out of Ian tonight. She, Bones, and Cat followed as Spade supported Ian, almost carrying him up the stairs to then dump him on the bed in a guest room. “Before you go, mate, turn on the telly. Something raunchy, too. Think I’ll rub one off before I sleep.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

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• Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.

  Carolina Maria de Jesus

  Life, Book, Black

  Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

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• Most people are walking around the city like corpses; they aren't alive enough to notice the trash. They come from other places and they see it as a big garbage dump. Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don't. That's partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible - Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

  Bette Midler

  Cities, People, Want

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