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• The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

  Ben Okri

  Perfection, Facts, Stories

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• Don’t bring the ocean if I feel thirsty, nor heaven if I ask for a light; but bring a hint, some dew, a particle, as birds carry only drops away from water, and the wind a grain of salt.

  Olav H. Hauge

  Ocean, Light, Wind

  Olav H. Hauge (1987). “Trusting Your Life to Water and Eternity: Twenty Poems of Olav H. Hauge”

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• Listen to presences inside poems,
  Let them take you where they will.
  Follow those private hints,
  and never leave the premises.

  Rumi

  Premises

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• I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

  John Woolman

  Writing, Years, Age

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• The sexual deviance - I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss that; but we do have hints of it but in a more psychological way and therefore more human way, arguably. Or certainly to the extent that the animated series takes that sexuality.

  Marton Csokas

  Lying, Animated Series, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.

  Adina Porter

  Character, Names, Trying

  "True Blood Actress Adina Porter: On Grief, Dedication, and Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Self, Expression

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• Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Dream, Freedom, Eye

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• So many people have said that to me, that what they really like about Alex is what she brings out in Marissa, and what this situation brings out in her, a hint of happiness and another side to her character.

  Olivia Wilde

  Character, People, Alex

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• It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

  Lori Loughlin

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

  Paul McCartney

  Marijuana, Japan, Withdrawal

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• If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

  Richard Lugar

  Reading, Thoughtful, Odds

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• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

  Lactantius

  Names, Heaven, Mountain

  Lactantius (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Lactantius (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Moving On, Differences, Time To Move On

  Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.62, Vanderbilt University Press

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• We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Dream, Reflection, Sometimes

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• I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Pain, Disappointment, Optimistic

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• How many times it thundered before Franklin took the hint! How many apples fell on Newton's head before he took the hint! Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

  Robert Frost

  Nature, Apples, Newton

  "Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English and American Poetry". Book by Louis Untermeyer, 1959.

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• The human body is a magazine of inventions, the patent office, where are the models from which every hint is taken. All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of its limbs and senses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Taken, Office, Patents

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2459, Delphi Classics

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• I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Memories, Book, Hands

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The great eventful Present hides the Past; but through the din Of its loud life hints and echoes from the life behind steal in.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Past, Echoes, History

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.221

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• Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth.

  George Eliot

  Summer, Morning, Cheer

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.149, Wordsworth Editions

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• The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

  John James Audubon

  Giving, Tree, Dry

  John James Audubon (1969). “Audubon, by Himself: A Profile of John James Audubon from Writings”

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• Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Light, Feelings, Wickedness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.862, Diversion Books

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• You'd have thought we planned it," says Peeta, giving me just the hint of a smile. "Didn't you?" asks Portia. Her fingers press her eyelids closed as if she's warding off a very bright light. "No," I say looking at Peeta with a new sense of apreciation. "Neither of us even knew what we were going to do before we went in." "And Haymitch?" says Peeta. "We decided we don't want any other allies in the arena." "Good. Then I won't be responsible for you killing off any of my friends with your stupidity," he says.

  Suzanne Collins

  Light, Giving, Stupidity

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• I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Dream, Heart, Desire

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