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• In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Falling In Love, Sight, Lightning

  J. M. Coetzee (1999). “Disgrâce”, Random House (UK)

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• One of the laudable by-products of the Freudian quackery is the discovery that lying, in most cases, is involuntary and inevitable--that the liar can no more avoid it than he can avoid blinking his eyes when a light flashes or jumping when a bomb goes off behind him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liars, Lying, Eye

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.325, Vintage

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• A fool who has a flash of wit creates astonishment and scandal, like hack-horses setting out to gallop.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Horse, Scandal, Fool

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• Christianity, if it is to triumph over pantheism, must absorb it. To our pusillanimous eyes Jesus would have borne the marks of a hateful pantheism, for he confirmed the Biblical phrase "ye are gods," and so would St. Paul, who tells us that we are of "the race of God." Our century wants a new theology - that is to say, a more profound explanation of the nature of Christ and of the light which it flashes upon heaven and upon humanity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Jesus, Eye, Biblical

  Entry for October 01, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Writing, Reflection

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.126

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• When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Memories, Mind, Doe

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.175

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• A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Law, Justice

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “The Collected Works of Edward Gibbon: Historical Works, Autobiographical Writings and Private Letters, Including The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3359, e-artnow

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• I remember, on the medevac helicopter, I said to myself, "I am not f - - g dying in Afghanistan." People talk about having flashbacks; I began having flash-forwards. I began thinking of all the things I still wanted to do.

  Giles Duley

  Thinking, People, Dying

  Interview with Lisa Rueff, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.

  Vance Gilbert

  Ribs, Gestures, Definitions

  Source: www.minor7th.com

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• I had Ice Cube on my first album, "Bunker," and then I did a remix for Snoop Dogg. I've worked with Grandmaster Flash and Pharrell. It's a different work process and there's a different take with how you produce [hip-hop].

  Paul Oakenfold

  Ice, Hip Hop, Cubes

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, Clouds, Light

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• His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

  Sydney Smith

  Silence, Enemy, Might

  Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.439

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• Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases.

  Kenneth Clark

  Doctrine, Phrases, Firsts

  John Ruskin, Kenneth Clark (1991). “Selected writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.

  Lillian Smith

  Believe, Ignorance, Men

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• One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I saw my rock'n'roll past flash before my eyes. And I saw something else: I saw rock and roll future and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel young, he made me feel like I was hearing music for the very first time.

  Jon Landau

  Eye, Past, Night

  "The Real Paper" Newspaper, 1974.

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• But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

  Elizabeth George

  Inspiration, Character, Ideas

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

  Carol Shields

  Learning, Records, Forget

  Carol Shields (2008). “The Stone Diaries: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.111, Penguin

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• The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

  Dean Smith

  Rain, Air, Shining

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• All truth has to be expressed in sentences... the type of sentence in nature is a flash of lightning.

  Ernest Fenollosa

  Lightning, Type, Sentences

  Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.47, Fordham University Press

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• I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Memories, Father, Mean

  "Kristin Scott Thomas: 'It's the most amazing feeling of liberation'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.

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• I get ideas from everything. A big color, the sound of water and wind, or a flash of something cool. Playing is like life. Either you feel it or you don't.

  Erroll Garner

  Color, Wind, Ideas

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• Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

  John Scalzi

  Philosophy, Political, Secret

  "I Hate Your Politics" by John Scalzi, whatever.scalzi.com. March 22, 2002.

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• What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

  Marion Woodman

  Analysis, Moments, Week

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• Maybe there's a universe out there - happening now - where we end up together and when I close my eyes at night, I'm not dreaming the way a normal person would. Instead I'm seeing flashes of our lives in the multiverse. They're not simple dreams because I miss you, right? They're scientific, anachronistic visions.

  Gaby Dunn

  Dream, Eye, Simple

  Gaby Dunn (2012). “Maybe in Another Universe: The Best of Gaby Dunn”, p.62, VOOK

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