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• Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption. "Corruption" is a popular word with the enthusiasts of the Dominion, usually uttered as a prelude to the knife, the docket, or the noose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  New York, July, Cities

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of the 22nd Century". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

  Christine Lavin

  Army, Giving, Doe

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• Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Reflection, Compassion, Detached

  "Brown v. United States, 256 U.S. 335, 343". Judicial opinion, May 16, 1921.

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• You ask me to plow the ground. Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I die she will not take me to her bosom to rest.

  Wovoka

  Mother, Native American, Cutting

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• It's often been said, "Violence never solved anything." The simple truth is that when you are slammed up against the wall and the knife is at your throat, when a circle of teenagers is kicking you as you curl into a ball on the sidewalk, or when the man walks into your office building or school with a pair of guns and starts shooting, only violence, or the reasonable threat of violence, is going to save your life. In the extreme moment, only force can stop force.

  Rory Miller

  Wall, Teenager, School

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• It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out the window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These exercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Distance, Fall, Numbness

  "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.

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• What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis; Horses fluent in the wind, A place, a time gone out of mind.

  Sylvia Plath

  Horse, Wind, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “The Colossus”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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• One of the things called forth by the Imagist movement in poetry was neatness; and when we say keenness, we mean neatness. A knife that is keen is also a knife that cuts neatly; it isn't brutal. Sharpness is different from brutality. Brutality is clumsy: it is wide - it has a lot of fist and thumb and no delicate finger.

  Eli Siegel

  Mean, Cutting, Different

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• Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice.

  Damian Marley

  Stronger, Killing, Pens

  FaceBook post by Damian Marley from Mar 11, 2013

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• Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

  Oswald Spengler

  Men, Soul, Would Be

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1932). “The Decline of the West”

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• I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Writing, Hands, Left Hand

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

  Joaquin Miller

  Brother, War, Heart

  Joaquin Miller (1872). “Joaquin: Et Al”, p.49

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• It's like ten thousand spoons, when all you need is a knife.

  Alanis Morissette

  Expression, Needs, Spoons

  "Ironic". Song by Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard, February 27, 1996.

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• Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart of his paradisal ideal. Somehow, somewhere, somewhen, love should be a fulfillment, and life should be a thing of bliss. That was his fixed ideal. Fata Morgana. That was the pin he tortured himself on, like a pinned-down butterfly.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Butterfly, Fighting

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

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• I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Thinking, Appearance

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• To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cutting, Two, Want

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• We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Hands, People, Reach Out

  Robinson Jeffers (1970). “Cawdor, a Long Poem: Medea, After Euripides”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

  Conrad Aiken

  Life, Song, Thirsty

  Conrad Potter Aiken, “Youth Imperturbable”

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

  Frank Herbert

  Blow, Decision, Weakness

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Cut that in Three, which Nature hath made One , Then strengthen hyt, even by it self alone, Wherewith then Cutte the poudred Sonne in twayne, By length of tyme, and heale the woonde againe. The self same Sunne twys yet more, ye must wounde, Still with new Knives, of the same kinde, and grounde; Our Monas trewe thus use by natures Law, Both binde and lewse, only with rype and rawe, And ay thanke God who only is our Guyde, All is ynugh, no more then at this Tyde.

  John Dee

  Cutting, Self, Law

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• I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

  T. Allen Lawson

  Art, Building Up, Want

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• To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Madness, Indulge, Knows

  R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.96, The Overlook Press

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• Of all the works of man I like best Those which have been used. The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges The knives and forks whose wooden handles Have been worn away by many hands: such forms Seemed to me the noblest.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Men, Hands, Pot

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.192, Taylor & Francis

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• My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

  David Lange

  Scar, Slips

  "A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations", (p. 96), 2000.

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• the 'finely polished word' of Hans Fritzsche was as effective as the surgeon's knife in cutting through the putrefying tissue of lies and laying bare the truth.

  Hans Fritzsche

  Lying, Cutting, Tissues

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