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• But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

  Carson McCullers

  Jesus, Years, Two

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes framed in embarassingly long lashes) a few times, and they would all faint.

  Ilona Andrews

  Girl, Eye, Fighting

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• Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

  Marilyn Manson

  Wall, Heart, Space

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• Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

  Eddie Vedder

  Pockets, Should

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• Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

  C. J. Cherryh

  Cat, Ignorance, Curiosity

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• ...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had been, and you weren't yet where you were going. You were nowhere. It might be beautiful outside the window-and it was, she had sense enough to realize that-but it wasn't anywhere to her, just a scene passing by that was framed by the train window. (p160)

  Katherine Paterson

  Beautiful, Passing By, Long

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• Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Prayer, Wall, Past

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

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• I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.

  Holly Black

  Spring, Cat, Animal

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look closely, the twenty-four hour day is framed into a moment; the still-life of the jerky amphetamine world. That woman-a pieta. Those men, rough angels with an unknown message. The children holding hands, spanning time. And in every still-life, there is a story, the story that tells you everything you need to know.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Children, Lying, Angel

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.

  Studs Terkel

  Hero, Responsibility, Thinking

  Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.337, The New Press

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• Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.

  Sarah Schulman

  Sports, Running, Mean

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• Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of nature; for they made the Oceanus and Tethys the parents of creation, and described the oath of the Gods as being by water, to which they give the name of Styx; for what is oldest is most honourable, and the most honourable thing is that by which one swears

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Rain, Thinking, Views

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• Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

  Sara Shepard

  Reading, Glasses, Black

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• All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

  Cathleen Schine

  Wall, Years, Mind

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• Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.

  J. K. Rowling

  White, Brain, Body

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• Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Punishment, Paying Taxes

  Twitter post from Sep 23, 2012

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• Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for help. Gale knees him in the side of the head and takes his gun.

  Suzanne Collins

  Wall, Gun, Snow

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.340, Scholastic Inc.

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• I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

  Osamu Dazai

  Summer, Dream, Recovery

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. We put on display our framed photographs, our parchment diplomas, our silver-plated cups; we monogram our linen, we carve our names on trees, we scrawl them on washroom walls. It's all the same impulse. What do we hope from it? Applause, envy, respect? Or simply attention, of any kind we can get? At the very least we want a witness. We can't stand the idea of our own voices falling silent finally, like a radio running down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Dog, Wall

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.95, Anchor

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• A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair was standing under a tree, her face tilted up in delight as its feathery leaves brushed across her face, framing it. A willow tree. Willow.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Girl, Hair, Long

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• There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

  Rufus Choate

  Kings, Law, People

  Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “The Works of Rufus Choate, with a Memoir of His Life: Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.379

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• When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various stuff the various Man.

  Robert Burns

  Eye, Men, Mind

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• The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.

  Edward Said

  Europe, Orientalism, World

  "Orientalism". Book by Edward W. Said, 1978.

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• There is a difference between constitutional government and judicial dictatorship, and I think it's time we remembered that our Constitution was not put together in order to establish the sovereignty of the judges, it was framed in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the people.

  Alan Keyes

  Thinking, Differences, Government

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Arlington, Virginia, www.keyesarchives.com. January 24, 2004.

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• A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

  John Marshall

  Age, Constitution, Immortality

  John Marshall, Joseph Potter Cotton (2000). “The Constitutional Decisions of John Marshall”, p.415, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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