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• Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

  Henry James

  Reading, Epic, Envelopes

  Henry James (2016). “The Portrait of a Lady, Complete: American Literature”, p.42, 谷月社

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• I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.

  Dave Eggers

  Wall, Phones, Very Happy

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• I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Rights, Motto

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• The word hammockable (describing two trees that are the perfect distance apart between which a hammock can be hung) is not in the dictionary, but it should be. [Of lying in hammocks]

  Dan Kieran

  Distance, Lying, Two

  Dan Kieran, Tom Hodgkinson (2012). “The Book of Idle Pleasures”, p.194, Random House

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• Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite.

  John Keats

  Art, Stars, Night

  'Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art' (1819)

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• Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there.

  Alexander Pope

  Animal, Blood, Kitchen

  "The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-eating". Book by Howard Williams, p. 132, archive.org. 1883.

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• He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

  Walter de La Mare

  Morning, Stars, Autumn

  Walter De la Mare (1933). “The Walter De La Mare Omnibus: Henry Brocken ; The Return ; Memoirs of a Midget”

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• Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

  Elif Batuman

  Love Is, Littles, Way

  Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.79, Granta Books

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• Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.

  Terry McMillan

  Success, Trying, Energy

  Terry McMillan (2012). “Disappearing Acts”, p.158, Penguin

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• Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Heart, Names, Pieces

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

  Joan of Arc

  Children, Truth, People

  "World Famous Women: Types of Female Heroism, Beauty, and Influence from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time" by Frank Boott Goodrich, (p. 126), 1881.

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• It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Notebook, Coffee, Writing

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• Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung

  Abraham Lincoln

  Military, Saboteurs, Damage

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• I guess this is a bad time to mention I hung a dummy and painted Seneca Crane's name on it.

  Suzanne Collins

  President Snow, Names, Bad Times

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

  Charles Dickens

  Moon, Light, Tree

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dickens Ultimate Christmas Collection: The Greatest Stories & Novels for Christmas Time: A Christmas Carol, Doctor Marigold, Oliver Twist, Tom Tiddler's Ground, The Holly-Tree and more (Illustrated): The Best Loved Christmas Classics in One Volume”, p.321, e-artnow

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• But you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive.

  Sapphire

  Trying, Details, Cant

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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• You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went away because others came along. Or sometimes it didn't go away but got squeezed into something tiny, and hung like a piece of tinsel in the back of your mind.

  Elizabeth Strout

  Life, Waiting, Feelings

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• On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Autumn, Jewels

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.5

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• My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind; So flew'd, so sanded; their heads are hung with ears that sweep away the morning dew.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Morning, Adorable

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• Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Independent, Hands, Years

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• I dont get hung up about anything really.

  Paz de la Huerta

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• Where, twisted round the barren oak,
  The summer vine in beauty clung,
  And summer winds the stillness broke,
  The crystal icicle is hung.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Summer, Winter, Wind

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

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• Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.

  Tom Petty

  Art, Media, Way

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• In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Party, Years, Skating

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