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• I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Sorry, Pain

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Thinking, Feet, Relaxation

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• She gave me a pledge card, a card promising an annual gift of $5, $10, or $25 toward the support of the Unity mission. I filled it out under the hot light of the projector. The name and address spaces were much too short, unless you wrote a very fine hand or unless your name was Ed Poe and you lived at 1 Elm St.

  Charles Portis

  Light, Hands, Names

  Charles Portis (2007). “The Dog of the South”, p.72, The Overlook Press

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• There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red berries, which peel back in the night to reveal gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh, Christmas in hot deserts, dust-blown countries, the necklace of tears, and the story of the robin.

  Sarah Hall

  Christmas, Country, Night

  Sarah Hall (2010). “Haweswater”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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• Avoid any diet that discourages the use of hot fudge.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Weight Loss, Use

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• Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

  Bruce Laingen

  Funny, Water, Tea

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• Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known previously. It circulated like weird serum, cold on the right side of her body, then hot on the left, where her heart was. It seemed to come nowhere near her head, which remained clear.

  Stephen King

  Heart, Hatred, Adults

  Stephen King (2014). “Big Driver”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're looking for a deep album or you're looking for me to talk about past situations, it's not even about that. It's just 14 hot records that are gonna make you dance.

  Puff Daddy

  Inspirational, Dance, Past

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• Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

  Van Jones

  Ocean, Two, Rising

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the incandescent metal and burn my own hand while burning the other. Hate itself is the seed of death in my own heart, while it seeks the death of the other.

  Thomas Merton

  Hate, Heart, Love Is

  "The Nonviolent Alternative".

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• I'm satisfied. It's straight,...but it's just so hot, and I'm just so fraustrated.

  Homer

  Frustration, Satisfied

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• The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.

  Jack Butler Yeats

  Summer, Humorous, Winter

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Food, Heart

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• Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.

  Richard Bach

  Life, Adventure, Swimming

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• In the fifties I had dreams about touching a naked woman and she would turn to bronze or the dream about hot dogs chasing donuts through the Lincoln Tunnel.

  Robert Klein

  Dream, Dog, Tunnels

  "Interview with Robert Klein, Barbara Kline, Linda Ellerbee, Richard Haass, Larry King's Children". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. June 19, 2005.

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• You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?...'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' First single....brilliant. Perhaps the most...brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That's what everyone wants. Not 24/7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche...or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can't hide. Every single successful song of the past fifty years can be traced back to 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand.' And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.

  Rachel Cohn

  Song, Sex, Growing Up

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Mistake, Good Friend

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• Everything in the media is fleeting. Don't get the wrong idea. Fame is when you're still the hot topic next week or even the week after.

  Miki Aihara

  Media, Next Week, Ideas

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• The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

  Gautama Buddha

  Revenge, Coal, Grudge

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• Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.

  James Tabor

  Running, Pain, Fire

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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

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• Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with glorious misery.

  Lynn Freed

  Feet, Imagination, Fiction

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• It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Home, Journey

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 12, 2014

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• I often remember in this false, distorted way, and the memories are often cloaked in the colour of the sun. Sometimes I feel nostalgia for things I knew I hated when they were happening, for days spent at the beach or the swimming pool with my sisters.
  When I pick my memories apart, I realise my mind has merely played back the objective ingredients, the clichéd apparatus of happiness, the sun, the sound of splashing water, ice-cream on parched lips and cold fizzy drink on a hot tongue, and laugher too. My memory often peddles on the falsehood of past happiness. I should know this.

  M. J. Hyland

  Beach, Memories, Swimming

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• Christians are like teabags, you don't really know what they're like until you put them in hot water.

  Chip Ingram

  Christian, Water, Knows

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