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• After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Personality, Support, Quality

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• Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Long, Shadow

  Susan Sontag (2014). “On Photography”, p.105, Penguin UK

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• This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.

  John R. Rice

  Eye, Gone, World

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• I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dinner, Sofas, Carpet

  Erma Bombeck (2009). “Eat Less Cottage Cheese and More Ice Cream: Thoughts on Life from Erma Bombeck”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• One more thing. The people and the friends that we have lost... or the dreams that have faded... never forget them.

  Unknown

  Dream, People, Never Forget

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• To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

  Sara Sheridan

  Reading, Hunting, Years

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• Why don't you have a room done up in every color green? This will take months, years, to collect, but it will be delightful-a melange of plants, green glass, green porcelains, and furniture covered in sad greens, gay greens, clear, faded, and poison greens?

  Diana Vreeland

  Gay, Glasses, Color

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• I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or required. You may easily disguise it, so that it is only recognized much later, when the story and the characters have faded into darkness.

  Philip Sington

  Character, Darkness, Fiction

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• Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As the criminology argument faded, gun control advocates began arguing guns were a public health problem.

  Steven Milloy

  Gun, Political, Research

  "Gun Control Science Misfires" by Steven Milloy, www.foxnews.com. October 31, 2002.

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• God is in the water of the lake; he is also in the cracked bed of the lake when the lake has dried up. God is in the abundant harvest; he is also in the famine that occurs when the harvest fails. God is in the lightning; he is also in the darkness when the lightning has faded.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  God, Lakes, Water

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• The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

  Herman Melville

  Giving, Promise, Way

  Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.148

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• As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

  Robin Hobb

  Mistake, Afterlife, Dying

  Robin Hobb (2008). “Renegade’s Magic (The Soldier Son Trilogy, Book 3)”, p.58, HarperCollins UK

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• Gather up your telegrams
  Your faded pictures, best laid plans
  Books and postcards, 45's
  Every sunset in the sky
  Carry with you maps and string, flashlights
  Friends who make you sing
  And stars to help you find your place
  Music, hope and amazing grace
  Maybe what we leave
  Is nothing but a tangled little mystery
  Maybe what we take
  Is nothing that has ever had a name

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Music, Stars, Book

  Song: Your Life Story, Album: The Calling

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• The fountain has not played itself out, the Flame still shines, the River still flows, the Spring still bubbles forth, the Light has not faded. But between us and It, there is a veil which is more like fifty feet of solid concrete. Deus absconditus. Or we have absconded.

  R. D. Laing

  Spring, Light, Flames

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• The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, People, House

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• There was no reality to pain when it left one, though while it held one fast all other realities faded.

  Rachel Field

  Pain, Reality, Left

  Rachel Field (1939). “All this and Heaven too”

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• She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Song: I Wanna Learn A Love Song

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• Until the Great Depression, most economists clung to a vision of capitalism as a perfect or nearly perfect system. That vision wasn’t sustainable in the face of mass unemployment, but as memories of the Depression faded, economists fell back in love with the old, idealized vision of an economy in which rational individuals interact in perfect markets.

  Paul Krugman

  Memories, Perfect, Vision

  "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?". www.nytimes.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

  Sarah Helen Whitman

  Yellow, Shadow, Slumber

  Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

  James Joyce

  Beauty, Long, Desire

  James Joyce (2015). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.329, Courier Dover Publications

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• When you can discover where the fresh colors of the faded flower abide, or the music of the broken lyre, seek life among the dead. Such are the anxious and fearful contemplations of the common observer, though the popular religion often prevents him from confessing them even to himself.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Flower, Color, Broken

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1814, Delphi Classics

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• Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Dry Bones, Generations

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?

  Tanya Tucker

  Flower, Days Gone By, Rose

  Song: Delta Dawn, Album: Delta Dawn

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• Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

  David Coverdale

  America, Rocks, Media

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