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• What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

  Ursula Hegi

  Rivers, Flow, Brokenness

  Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• The rule of thumb for the old backpacking was that the weight of your pack should equal the weight of yourself and the kitchen range combined. Just a casual glance at the full pack sitting on the floor could give you a double hernia and fuse four vertebrae. After carrying the pack all day, you had to remember to tie one leg to a tree before you dropped it. Otherwise you would float off into space. The pack eliminated the need for any special kind of ground-gripping shoes, because your feet would sink a foot and a half into hard-packed earth, two inches into solid rock.

  Patrick F. McManus

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• I was generally pro-bat, except when I was trekking through the dark trying not to think about the dire fate of every horror movie character stupid enough to go into the dark with a flashlight and check the fuses.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Stupid, Character, Fate

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• The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

  Bill Watterson

  Brain, Way, Hobbes

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically and fuses all into one happy and harmonious unity of feeling and sentiment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Feelings, Unity, Enthusiasm

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Sky, Lines, Towns

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• Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wedding, Strong, Fall

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• I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.

  Fynn

  Grief, Blow, Mind

  Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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• Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.

  Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  Ukraine, Violence, Lit

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• Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Light, Bangs, Television

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• As soon as a woman re- fuses to be perfectly happy doing housework eight hours a day, society has a tendency to want to do a lobotomy on her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Eight, Want, Lobotomy

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• ...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Government, Burning, Following

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1959). “Up from Liberalism”

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• For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A line is a fuse that's lit. The line smolders, the rhyme explodes— and by a stanza a city is blown to bits.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Cities, Lines, Rhyme

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• Alternatively you can twist the cylinder round twice clockwise; that turns it into a hand grenade. Five-second fuse. I tested it on one of my assistants. Poor old Bennett... he should be out of hospital in a couple of months.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Couple, Hands, Twists

  Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Ark angel”, Putnam Juvenile

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• Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone.

  Elton John

  Men, Burning, Rockets

  Song: Rocket Man '03

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• When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Light, Yesterday, World

  Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

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• I will go out again this very night with my rockets and fuses. I will blow them straight out of their comfortable beds. Blow the rooftops off their houses. Blow the black, wretched night to bits. I will not stop. For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Blow, Night, Mad

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.143, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.

  Ernst Junger

  Goal, Sparks, Way

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• They spent their time doing nothing... they let intimacy fuse them.

  Jean Genet

  Doing Nothing, Intimacy

  Jean Genet (1994). “Our Lady of the Flowers”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. I didn't know about that. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Dad, Fall, Parent

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.28, Scholastic Inc.

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• Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants . . . Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.

  James Patterson

  Men, Fire, Guy

  James Patterson (2010). “Maximum Ride Boxed Set #1”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.

  Malcolm X

  Personality, Ingredients, Birth

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.159, Ballantine Books

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• When your Super Bowl guests arrive, they should find a mound of potato chips large enough to conceal a pony sitting in front of the television. For nutritional balance, you should also put out a bowl of carrot sticks. If you have no carrot sticks, you can use pinecones, or used electrical fuses, because nobody will eat them anyway. This is no time for nutritional balance: This is the Super Bowl, for God's sake.

  Dave Barry

  Balance, Sticks, Ponies

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