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• Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Lying, Style

  Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge

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• [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Littles, Rubber

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Power, Evil, Promise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Stars, Rocks, Musician

  "Edward Van Halen Is Alive" by David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• My body gets weak without truth.

  Andrei Platonov

  Body, Weak

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• We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

  Anne Carson

  Life, Earth, Humans

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• Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Crow, Mind, Nests

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

  Brian Setzer

  Song, Real, Cat

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• Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
  Rising thro' the mellow shade,
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
  Tangled in a silver braid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Science, Night

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

  Herman Melville

  Opulence, Glare, Should

  Herman Melville (2016). “Herman Melville The Dover Reader”, p.505, Courier Dover Publications

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• I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him

  Steve Williams

  New York, Expression, Talking

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• My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Father, Twilight

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Bridges, Gaps

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.188, Anchor

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Sparkle, Virtue

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• What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Humility, Reflection, Order

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• Oh, I've got glitter in my hair. That's not all that's in my hair, I'll tell you that. I glue it on every morning, whether I need to or not.

  Mitt Romney

  Morning, Hair, Awkward

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• Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, People, Style

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

  Brad Sherman

  Skills, Weak, Foreign Policy

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• Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequer’d face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirror’d to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wand’ring where the heart delights to dwell.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Nature, Eye

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• Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Duncan, Glamour

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cousin, Aunt, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin

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