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• Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

  Rennie Ellis

  Food, Beer, Long

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• Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Nervous, Crime

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• I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What's wrong with that idea?

  Garth Stein

  Spiritual, Ideas, People

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

  Will Self

  Paper, Ifs

  "Will Self: modernism and me" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2012.

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• So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Moon, Amber, Earth

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.120, University of Illinois Press

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• Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.

  Fred Wilson

  Links, Flow, Visitors

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• Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Life, Time, Forever

  Peter S. Beagle (1968). “The Last Unicorn”, Roc

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• Ah those knock-out body fluids: blood, sperm, tears!

  Jean Genet

  Blood, Tears, Body

  Jean Genet (1994). “Querelle”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the bag. I love the kidney with it's painful gall-stones, it's gravel and what-not; I love the urine that pours out scalding and the clap that runs endlessly; I love the words of hysterics and the sentences that flow on like dysentery and mirror all the sick images of the soul.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Mirrors, Blood

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• The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Skulls, Brain, Tissues

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• Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Fall, Light

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.401, Penguin

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• Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Jealous, Generosity

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• Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Writing, Stories, Levitation

  "Gabriel Garcia Marquez: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2014.

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• A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

  H. E. Bates

  Change, Time, Adventure

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• This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Law, Tree, Environmental

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• His absence will haunt their hallways, and he will be a space they can't fill. And then time will pass, and the hole will be gone, like when an organ is removed and the body's fluids flow into the space it leaves. Humans can't tolerate emptiness for long.

  Veronica Roth

  Space, Long, Gone

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Collector's Edition”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow. “It’s not like Magnus’s party,” Isabelle reassured him. “Everything here ought to be safe to drink.” “Ought to be?” Aline look worried.

  Cassandra Clare

  Party, Past, Glasses

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1233, Simon and Schuster

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• An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.

  Niels Kaj Jerne

  Animal, Cells, Brain

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Drinking, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Army, Hair, Voice

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Squares, Mirrors

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• Time is so...fluid where I live

  Janet Morris

  Time, Ontology

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.160, Paradise Publishing

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• Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.

  Arnaud Desjardins

  Buddhism, Suffering, Movement

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• Curiously, the one bodily fluid of other people that doesn't disgust us is the one produced by the human alone: tears. Consider the sole type of used tissue you'd be willing to share.

  Michael Pollan

  People, Tears, Tissues

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.149, Bloomsbury Publishing

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