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• God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fads, Too Much, Lasts

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.5, City Lights Books

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• The consumer mentality - we like something, what other flavor does it come in? We like that TV show, does it come in a book form? Does it come in a capsule? How about a soup?

  Paul Reiser

  Book, Tv Shows, Doe

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• I don't look at myself on the outside. Sometimes you feel like you're not really there and need one more [take], because I feel like something is coming out. I don't really know what but I need to get it out.

  Noomi Rapace

  Needs, Looks, Sometimes

  Source: collider.com

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• The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

  Philip Larkin

  Grief, Years, Tree

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Poesía reunida”, p.217, LUMEN

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• You're like something drawn with the sun's fire, and I can take only little glimpses of you.

  Kenneth Oppel

  Fire, Glimpse, Littles

  Kenneth Oppel (2012). “Such Wicked Intent: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein, Book Two”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

  Lucy Christopher

  Tunnels, Light, Heaven

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• Willie said normal was boring and that I should be grateful that I had a touch of spice. She said no one cared about boring people, and when they died, they were forgotten, like something that slips behind the dresser.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Grateful, People, Spices

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.33, Penguin

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• Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Moving, Past, Rivers

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.96, Macmillan

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• Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had a black cane in his right hand. As he came slowly over to the Brotherhood's table, his patrons parted before him, partly out of respect for his size, partly out of fear from his reputation. Everyone knew who he was and what he was capable of: Rehv was the kind of drug lord who took a personal interest in his livelihood. You crossed him and you turned up diced like something off the Food Channel.

  J.R. Ward

  Hands, Drug, Black

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.69, Penguin

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• Why do I feel like something's missing in my life without them and they don't feel the same about me?

  Melina Marchetta

  Missing, Feels, Saving Francesca

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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• Advice for a human 86. To like something is to insult it. Love it or hate it. Be passionate. As civilisation advances, so does indifference. It is a disease. Immunize yourself with art. And love.

  Matt Haig

  Art, Hate, Advice

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• Being a geek means you never have to play it cool about how much you like something.

  Simon Pegg

  Mean, Play, Geek

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• My struggle is to preserve that abstract flash - like something you caught out of the corner of your eye, but in the picture you can look at it directly.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Struggle, Eye, Looks

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• I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's not going to be like they're all going to leave. One of the reasons I'm holding this hearing in the morning is to hear from somebody who actually understands what's involved here - Janet Napolitano - and I hope that from what she says and what we hear from her, we can start building some consensus.

  Patrick Leahy

  Country, Morning, Reality

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• I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Believe, Flower, Done

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.45, Infobase Publishing

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• I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.

  Igor Levit

  Guy, Stories, Feels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Looks, Want

  Robert Rauschenberg, Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (1968). “Robert Rauschenberg”

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• I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Might, Rare Moments, Panic

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2013). “Prep and American Wife: Two Bestselling Novels”, p.237, Random House

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• Once traveling, it's remarkable how quickly faith erodes. It starts to look like something else--ignorance, for example. Same thing happened to the Israelites. Sure it's weak, but sometimes you'd rather just have a map.

  Leif Enger

  Ignorance, Example, Looks

  Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.134, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

  Dorothy Parker

  Looks, Young

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.88, Penguin

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• Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

  Lynne Truss

  Gold, Levels, Sacred

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• Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

  Tennessee Williams

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Giving Up

  Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: Cat on a hot tin roof. Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer”

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• The Beatles. I didn't like the first couple of songs, but when I heard "She Loves You', it was like something went off in my head.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Song, Couple, Love You

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I feel connected to every song on this record [ 'Modern Vampires Of The City' ], but yeah I think there's something special about 'Young Lion'. It's pretty different from any song that we've had before because the vocals are kind of between two different very simple instrumental piano melodies and it's almost like something that we call a vignette, it's sort of like a miniature.

  Rostam Batmanglij

  Song, Simple, Thinking

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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