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• Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

  Aldo Leopold

  Real, Jewels, June

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Silly, Men

  Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Carl Schurz, Joseph Choate, Francis F. Browne (2017). “LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate”, p.805, Madison & Adams Press

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• What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with sediment, or to a barrel full of floating froth and refuse? No, what it is really most like is a spider's web, insecurely hung on leaves and twigs, quivering in every wind, and sprinkled with dewdrops and dead flies. And at its centre, pondering forever the Problem of Existence, sits motionless the spider-like and uncanny Soul.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Wind, Forever, Soul

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1989). “An anthology”

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• I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Writing, Careers, Growing

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• Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches of the silvery leafed tree beside the creek. Underneath the lazy sensuality of a luxurious stretch from toes to nose I felt the strong unequivocal demand of my blood. I hugged myself for a moment watching the grey light yield to dawn through half-closed eyes.

  Lucy Irvine

  Strong, Eye, Night

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• The British often shy away from any cinematic interpretation of real sex. They sometimes have what I call "subtle sex," which is really introspective and has soft music in the background. Either that or it's played for comedy. The British are kind of hung up about sex. They find it kind of titillating and they make jokes about it because they're nervous.

  Steve Coogan

  Sex, Real, Shy

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

  Donald Fagen

  Song, New York, Writing

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• The natural world around us shows the way to relief. All of life is maintained by the sun, by the air, by water, by the earth and its resources. And to whom was the sun given? To everyone. If there is any one thing that people do have in common, it is the gift of sunlight. But as the early Christians said, "If the sun were not hung so high, someone would have claimed it long ago."

  Eberhard Arnold

  Christian, Air, Long Ago

  Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold (2000). “Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction”, p.94, The Plough Publishing House

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• My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Successful, Feet, Entrepreneur

  "The Visionary Thing". www.wired.com. November 01, 1999.

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• Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Children, Guitar

  "Just Kids". Book by Patti Smith, www.cbc.ca. January 4, 2011.

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• High school is a dark place; I hung out with ‘freaks.’

  Jared Leto

  School, Dark, Freak

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• Across the land a faint blue veil of mist
  Seems hung; the woods wear yet arrayment sober
  Till frost shall make them flame; silent and whist
  The drooping cherry orchards of October
  Like mournful pennons hang their shriveling leaves
  Russet and orange: all things now decay;
  Long since ye garnered in your autumn sheaves,
  And sad the robins pipe at set of day.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Autumn, Blue, Flames

  Siegfried Sassoon (1949). “Collected Poems”

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• In the spangled sky, the rainbow, the woodland hung with diamonds, the sward sown with pearly dew, the rosy dawn, the golden clouds of even, the purple mountains, the hoary rock, the blue boundless main, Nature's simplest flower, or some fair form of laughing child or lovely maiden, we cannot see the beautiful without admiring it.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Beautiful, Nature, Children

  Thomas Guthrie (1862). “The Way to Life: Sermons”, p.161

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• The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

  Hortense Calisher

  Writing, Mind, Shapes

  Hortense Calisher (2013). “Extreme Magic: Eight Stories and a Novella”, p.81, Open Road Media

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• If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put it there.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Writing, Pistols

  "Chekhov at 150: brilliance in brief" by Jake Wallis Simons, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2010.

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• I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up

  Drake

  Relationship, Romantic, Rapper

  Song: Connect, 2013

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• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  Gerald Kersh

  Lonely, Dog, Stars

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• Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.

  Reed Morano

  Art, Female, Art Is

  "DP Reed Morano on Making it as a Cinematographer Regardless of the ‘Female Thing’" by Reed Morano, www.indiewire.com. February 24, 2015.

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• My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.

  Chazz Palminteri

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• You're much too hung up on all of your ideas and your desires. You still have not penetrated the essence of yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Essence, Ideas

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• If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Confused, Mean

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• I didn't work for a year after Wall Street. I finished that in November, and then it was the following October that I did Drive, so I took a year off. I didn't do anything at all, really. I just hung around.

  Carey Mulligan

  Wall, Years, October

  Source: collider.com

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• My nana was always a widow as long as I was alive; my grandfather died before I was born. All the women on my street - there were four houses in a row with all old women who lived alone who were widowed. They all had kids, but they were all widowed. My mom didn't put me in preschool; I didn't know that was a thing. I just hung out with these women all day.

  Jen Kirkman

  Mom, Kids, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked his mother, 'Mother, who is that man who stands so we can't see Jesus?'

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Mother, Morning

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• If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

  Art Buchwald

  Sadness, Yesterday, Live In The Moment

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