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• Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping forever through time: the rupture between past and future: the gap at the poles of the revolving magnetic field, infinitesimally small but ultimately real. It is the interchronic pause when nothing is happening. It is the void between events.

  George Kubler

  Real, Dark, Past

  Artscribe. Nr. 7; 13; 17-18, (p. 36), 1977.

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• Come, come thou bleak December wind,
  And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
  Flash, like a Love-thought, thro'me, Death
  And take a Life that wearies me.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Blow, Wind, Tree

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2011). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the power of God; the demonstration of argument and the logic of the schools, but not the demonstration of the Holy Spirit, the all-convincing logic of His lightning flash, such as convinced Saul before the Damascus gate. When the Spirit was outpoured the disciples were all filled with power from on high, the most unlettered tongue could silence gainsayers, and with its new fire burn its way through obstacles as flames fanned by mighty winds sweep through forests.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  School, Fire, Flames

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• I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose. My skin, you see, screams. It's covered with words - cook, cupcake, kitty, curls - as if a knife-wielding first-grader learned to write on my flesh. I sometimes, but only sometimes, laugh. Getting out of the bath and seeing, out of the corner of my eye, down the side of a leg: baby-doll. Pulling on a sweater, and in a flash of my wrist: harmful. Why these words?

  Gillian Flynn

  Baby, Eye, Writing

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.

  Dave Stevens

  Spiritual, Jobs, Numbers

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Brave

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.

  Ron Pope

  Beautiful, Firefly, Lasts

  Song: Fireflies, Album: Daylight

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• There are some moments in life that are like pivots around which your existence turns—small intuitive flashes, when you know you have done something correct for a change, when you think you are on the right track. I watched a pale dawn streak the cliffs with Day-glo and realized this was one of them. It was a moment of pure, uncomplicated confidence—and lasted about ten seconds.

  Robyn Davidson

  Thinking, Track, Dawn

  Robyn Davidson (2012). “Tracks”, p.3, A&C Black

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• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my head, and having a sip of that champagne, and just as I was bringing down and adjusting my Thai purple sleep mask, I had an inkling. I had a flash. I suddenly thought I knew what it was that had killed Marilyn Monroe.

  Spalding Gray

  Sleep, Climbing, Class

  "Fictional character: Spalding Gray". "Swimming to Cambodia", www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• Damn flowers. Nice kids, the ones who skated out and gave us them. But the flowers, the stem fell off. I stepped right on it and was on my ass in a flash. Must have looked good, huh? A hundred million guys watching all around the world, brass bands playing, the Russian cats in the stands, and here I am dumped on the ice. So I waved to the folks back home inthe Soo, a wave from the dummy with egg on his face.

  Phil Esposito

  Nice, Flower, Home

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• Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

  Albert Einstein

  Ignorance, Men, Cells

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• What good does it do to have all the riches of the world and all the world's pleasures? They will all disappear in the flash we call a human lifetime. Focusing on the pleasures of the world keeps the mind too distracted to search for the inner Self.

  Rama Swami

  Inspirational, Life, Self

  Swami Rama (2002). “Sacred Journey: Living Purposefully and Dying Gracefully”, p.34, Lotus Press

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• Out of the darkness comes light like a flash
  You think you can, you think you can
  Sometimes that is the problem
  Dream little darling dream

  Dave Matthews

  Dream, Thinking, Light

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• If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Lonely, Time, Stars

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• Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We’re going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He’s got a lot of ability. He’s shown some flashes of brilliance and then he’s shown some rookie mistakes. We’ve got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we’ve) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don’t know.

  Bob McNair

  Mistake, Thinking, Play

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• Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

  Peter James

  Sorry, Machines, Might

  Peter James (1991). “Sweetheart”

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• There just isn’t a weak season of 'Breaking Bad.' There’s just superior work, a sprint toward evil that turned into a marathon. But like all big-talker shows that bring their heavy cargo in for a rough and breathlessly observed landing, 'Breaking Bad' didn’t quite leave itself enough runway to satisfactorily end some of its better story lines, especially once the chronology gap closed up between the flash-forwards from last year’s episodes and Sunday night’s conclusion. One could easily argue that there was just too much left to do in this one episode.

  Hank Stuever

  Sunday, Night, Years

  " TV ‘Breaking Bad’ finale: What happened to Walt — and to us" by Hank Stuever, www.washingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Race, Next

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

  Theodor Reik

  Creativity, Artist, Wrath

  Theodor Reik (1963). “The Need to be Loved”

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• His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Style, Lightning

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken, cracked from the wind. This great estuary is wide, endless. The river is brackish, blue with the cold. It passes beneath us blurring. The sea birds hang above it, they wheel, disappear. We flash the wide river, a dream of the past. The deeps fall behind, the bottom is paling the surface, we rush by the shallows, boats beached for winter, desolate piers. And on wings like the gulls, soar up, turn, look back.

  James Salter

  Dream, Lying, Fall

  James Salter (2011). “Light Years”, p.3, Vintage

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• Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Success, Math, Two

  "Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.

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• One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool ourselves about what's true and are wrong about what we conclude is right. And this man, who in a flash sees the universe naked, creates a philosophy or dreams up a religion; and the philosophy spreads and the religion propagates, and those who believe in the philosophy begin to wear it as a suit they don't see, and those who believe in the religion put it on as a mask they soon forget.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Philosophy, Philosophical

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 255, 1982.

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• The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Healing, Miscarriage, Talking

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar”, p.21, Vintage

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• My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Struggle, Eye, Looks

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