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• I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

  Daniel Handler

  Events, Bookstores, Chains

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye.

  Robert Frost

  Bye, Feet, House

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, School, Schooling

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• The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is exemplary. One reason we love music so much is that it's so complete and the notes harmonize with one another in time to make a beautiful, ideal statement; not like our daily life where the rhythms are more subtle or hard to find or are constantly being interrupted or changed in ways that aren't so easy to handle.

  Mel Weitsman

  Beautiful, Moving, Way

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• For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed and gratefully appreciated, they must be interrupted so the person can see that not having them is not as good as having them.

  Jean Paul

  Gratitude, Sleep, Riches

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• It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

  Rod Serling

  Funny, Dance, Humor

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• The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Writing, Tables, Fame

  "Who is the most outstanding person of 2001? You tell us" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2001.

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• It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

  George Eliot

  Music, Middlemarch

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.663, Wordsworth Editions

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• Mack was getting frustrated. He spoke louder, 'But, don't I have a right to...' To complete a sentence without being interrupted? Not in reality. But as long as you think you do, you will surely get ticked off when someone cuts you off, even if it is God.

  William P. Young

  Cutting, Reality, Thinking

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• Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

  Zoey Dean

  Parks, Degrees, Skating

  Zoey Dean (2008). “Almost Famous, A Talent novel”, p.105, Penguin

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• I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.

  Robert Frost

  Rain, Eye, Night

  "Acquainted with the Night" l. 1 (1928)

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• Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

  Nick Denton

  Moving, Media, Needs

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• At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Age, Sound, Nuclear

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• I don't consider myself to be a painter. I think of myself as someone who has used the medium of painting in an attempt to extend - give an extra dimension to - the medium of words. It happens very often my writing with a pen is interrupted with my writing with a brush - but I think of both as writing.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Writing, Thinking, Giving

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• Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

  Mutabaruka

  Slavery

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• We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. God will be constantly crossing our paths and canceling our plans by sending us people with claims and petitions.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  People, Path, Claims

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1954). “Life Togehter”

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• A free and open society is an ongoing conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises.

  Saul Alinsky

  Society, Ongoing, Compromise

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.59, Vintage

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• Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.

  Jules Renard

  Writing, Way, Reading Writing

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• The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.

  Elias Canetti

  Writing, Night, Literature

  "Quote Unquote (A Handbook of Quotations)". Book by M.P. Singh, p. 302, January 1, 2005.

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• All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain.

  Drake

  Taken, Humble, Fans

  Song: The Calm, Album: So Far Gone, 2009

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• Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Short Life, Men, Anxiety

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• 'Always speak the truth - think before you speak - and write it down afterwards.'
  'I'm sure I didn't mean - ' Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen interrupted her impatiently.
  'That's just what I complain of! You should have meant! What do you suppose is the use of child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning - and a child's more important than a joke, I hope.

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Children, Honesty

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk
  The dew that lay upon the morning grass;
  There is no rustling in the lofty elm
  That canopies my dwelling, and its shade
  Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint
  And interrupted murmur of the bee,
  Settling on the sick flowers,
  And then again Instantly on the wing.

  William C. Bryant

  Summer, Morning, Flower

  William Cullen Bryant, “Summer Wind”

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• Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this view of the world, we spend the rest of our lives searching for wholeness and knowledge, wellness and health-the balance and harmony we lost when we were born. If our wholeness is interrupted, then our health suffers, and we need to find a way to restore our sense of meaning. When we move in the direction of that meaning, we're healing.

  Bernie Siegel

  Spiritual, Moving, Healing

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• What advice can we give to new mothers? Their children need to work at an interesting occupation: they should not be helped unnecessarily, nor interrupted, once they have begun to do something intelligent.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Children, Intelligent

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