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• Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

  William S. Burroughs

  Sacrifice, Color, Tree

  William S. Burroughs (1979). “Ah Pook is here, and other texts”, Calder Publications Limited

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• I don't feel very good about myself. People always leave me. Nobody can stand me for very long. I wish I could cut my tongue out, or take out the part of my brain that has opinions. Or cares. I wish I could be simple. Be quiet, introverted, or shy. I'm half way in between a wallflower at a party and Elvis Presley. People love one or the other. In between is no place to be.

  Jack White

  Party, Cutting, Simple

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• Half the world is below average and it's not going to get any better.

  David Crabb

  Average, World

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• I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo

  Other Half, Cry

  Jean-Claude Izzo (2016). “Chourmo”, p.100, Penguin

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• At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Heart, Eye

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.278, Simon and Schuster

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• Half the world's work is done by hopeless neurotics.

  Pat Barker

  Done, World, Hopeless

  Pat Barker (2013). “The Ghost Road”, p.60, Penguin

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• Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.

  Peter Senge

  Elephants, Two, Doe

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• I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Passing Away, Advise

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• I caught a tremendous fish
  and held him beside the boat
  half out of water, with my hook
  fast in a corner of his mouth.
  He didn't fight.
  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  I stared and stared
  and victory filled up
  the little rented boat
  from the pool of bilge
  where oil had spread a rainbow
  around the rusted engine
  to the bailer rusted orange,
  the sun-cracked thwarts
  the oarlocks on their strings,
  the gunnels-until everything
  was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
  And I let the fish go.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Fighting, Orange, Filled Up

  "The Fish" l. 74 (1946)

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• I haven't had sex in two and a half years. A guy I met in San Francisco gave me a sympathy blow job. It didn't really work. I said, "You're just doing this 'cause you feel sorry for me." We stopped in the middle.

  Kevin Sessums

  Jobs, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Statistically you take thousands of photographs of your first kid, and then with your second kidyou take about half of that. And then with your third kid, you, like, pawn off your first and second kids' photographs and tell them they're theirs.

  Milla Jovovich

  Kids, Pawns, Firsts

  Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2009.

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• If you have nothing to hide, if you're actually working for eight hours, or 10 or 12 hours, however long people decide to work, it's OK to have windows around conference rooms, it's OK to have cubicles. Because you're actually working. If you're not working, doing social media and spending half the day for personal stuff, then an environment like this will actually bother you.

  Marcelo Claure

  Eight, Media, Long

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.

  D.A. Wallach

  Song, People, Justice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In a couple of decades you have half of the wells that are drilled right now, and you're talking about numbers in the millions of wells drilled, leaking. That's a huge crisis in terms of water contamination. There's no way to fix that problem.

  Josh Fox

  Couple, Talking, Numbers

  "Gasland Part II": The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

  Aristotle

  Distance, Goal, Way

  "Physics". Book by Aristotle (VI:9, 239b10), circa 340 BC.

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• Man's destiny lies half within himself, half without. To advance in either half at the expense of the other is literally insane.

  Philip Wylie

  Lying, Destiny, Men

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• At least half of your mind is always thinking, I'll be leaving; this won't last. It's a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I'm just sad.

  Anne Carson

  Buddhist, Attitude, Thinking

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• I don't often spend more than half an hour in prayer at one time, but I never go more than half an hour without praying.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Prayer, Praying, Hours

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• Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is

  William Osler

  Errors, Gentleman, Taught

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• If a hundred or a thousand people, all of the same
  age, of the same constitution and habits, were suddenly
  seized by the same illness, and one half of them were to
  place themselves under the care of doctors, such as they
  are in our time, whilst the other half entrusted themselves
  to Nature and to their own discretion, I have not the
  slightest doubt that there would be more cases of death
  amongst the former, and more cases of recovery among
  the latter.

  Petrarch

  Recovery, Doctors, People

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• Once we have a sense of how long a decision should take, we generally should delay the moment of decision until the last possible instant. If we have an hour, we should wait 59 minutes before responding. If we have a year, we should wait 364 days. Even if we have just half a second, we should wait as long as we possibly can ... Life might be a race against time but it is enriched when we rise above our instincts and stop the clock to process and understand what we are doing and why. A wise decision requires reflection, and reflection requires a pause.

  Frank Partnoy

  Wise, Reflection, Years

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• Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

  Rumi

  Art, Writing, Wine

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• To try something longer, I entered a half-hour radio drama contest with the national public broadcaster, CBC. To my surprise, I won. And that opened doors in film and television, because that broadcaster was looking to cultivate new Canadian talent, especially women who could write.

  Karen Walton

  Drama, Writing, Doors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Women are much more discriminating. I think both types of people are equally interested in having an attractive partner. But women essentially give the thumbs up to only half as many guys as guys giving the thumbs up to women.

  Christian Rudder

  Thinking, Thumbs Up, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some of the arguments and discrepancies African American actors have with the opportunities here.

  Aml Ameen

  Opportunity, Thinking, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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