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• Dead, hung up indoors, the kingfisher
  will not indicate a favoring wind,
  or avert the thunderbolt.

  Charles Olson

  Death, Wind, Thunderbolts

  Charles Olson (1997). “The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems”, p.87, Univ of California Press

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• A ward, and still in bonds, one day
  I stole abroad;
  It was high spring, and all the way
  Primrosed and hung with shade;
  Yet was it frost within,
  And surly winds
  Blasted my infant buds, and sin
  Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

  Henry Vaughan

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

  Jim Rohn

  Thinking, Unhappy, Want

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 14, 2016

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• I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Bridges, Cities, Watches

  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1851). “The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson”

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• You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

  Christopher Reeve

  Responsibility, Achievement, Ugly

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• Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.

  Edith Wharton

  Summer, Moon, Sky

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see."

  Joe Frazier

  Mom, Brother, Hands

  "Joe Frazier: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 7, 2011.

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• The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

  Shan Sa

  Moon, Dust, Sky

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• One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart; — hung it because I knew that it had loved me, and because I felt it had given me no reason of offence; — hung it because I knew that in so doing I was committing a sin — a deadly sin that would so jeopardize my immortal soul as to place it — if such a thing were possible — even beyond the reach of the infinite mercy of the Most Merciful and Most Terrible God.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Morning, Eye, Heart

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• Because of something told under the famished horn
  Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
  To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
  Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.33, Library of Alexandria

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• My faith
  is a great weight
  hung on a small wire,
  as doth the spider
  hang her baby on a thin web.

  Anne Sexton

  Faith, Baby, Wire

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• What attracted me about my mirrors was the idea of having nothing manipulated in them. A piece of bought mirror. Just hung there, without any addition, to operate immediately and directly. Even at the risk of being boring. Mere demonstration. The mirrors, and even more the Panes of Glass, were also certainly directed against Duchamp, against his Large Glass.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Glasses, Mirrors

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.

  Horace Walpole

  Queens, Hands, Drawing

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• Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?

  Peter Abelard

  Son, Compassion, Two

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• I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.

  Diamanda Galas

  Mother, Class, White

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• Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

  Alexander Haig

  Hostage Crisis, Tough, Carter

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• When we get hung up on the non-essentials, the essentials have no opportunity to make a significant appearance.

  Dwight Edwards

  Opportunity, Essentials, Appearance

  Dwight Edwards (2013). “Releasing the Rivers Within: The Exhilaration of Utter Dependence on God”, p.104, WaterBrook

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• I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Running, Stars

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung on to them, fearing they were falling into Hell itself. Men were moved by fear to escape damnation. That was believed to be Christianity. Why any coward wanted to keep out of Hell. He might not have had one idea in his soul of what was the real true earmark of Christianity.

  John G. Lake

  Real, Fall, Men

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• You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

  Jay Mohr

  Funny, Movie, Senior

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• A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

  Lionel Shriver

  Jealousy, Thinking, People

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• What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.

  Iggy Pop

  Drinking, Christ, Fisherman

  "Iggy Pop's Trail of Destruction" by Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. December 11, 2003.

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• I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love.

  Tupac Shakur

  Family, Brother, Father

  Song: Dear Mama

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• The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stars, Home, Moon

  Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

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