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• In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.

  Randall Jarrell

  Evil, Heaven, Demand

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 59), 1980.

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• When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Money, Fear, War

  "The Crazy Ape: Written by a Biologist for the Young". Book by Albert Szent-Györgyi, 2014.

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• Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Civilization, Poet

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• I forget it's Shane Warne and just think of him as any old bowler lobbing down a lump of leather.

  Brian Lara

  Thinking, Forget, Leather

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• I'm not a structured writer. I have the carpet-laying theory which is you put it out there until there is a lump and you keep pushing the lump across the floor until the whole thing just lies flat. Every time you write there is going to be a bulge, something doesn't work and you have to find your way to get it to the other end.

  Bruce Joel Rubin

  Lying, Writing, Way

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• Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.

  Michael Chabon

  Pain, Party, Wrath

  "The Writing Life" by Michael Chabon, www.washingtonpost.com. July 16, 2000.

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• We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, People, House

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

  William Friedkin

  Taken, Gay, People

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, film.avclub.com. September 20, 2007.

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• Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Stupid, Teaching, Facts

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”

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• Actual creativeness is a matter of moments. One has to piece together the minute grains to make a lump. And it is so easy to miss the momentary flashes, it is like sluicing in placer mining. He who lets the flakes float by has nothing to show for his trouble.

  Eric Hoffer

  Missing, Together, Pieces

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• A poet must never make a statement simply because it sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true." - W. H. Auden
  "A poem...begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness...It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

  Robert Frost

  Believe, Sound, Poet

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• Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Awkward, Sodium

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.86, Рипол Классик

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• The local-tone is the intrinsic value of a thing - excluding any effects of light. The local-tone of a common pearl is very nearly white; that of a lump of coal, nearly black.

  Nathan Goldstein

  Light, White, Black

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• It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Progress, Important, Reform

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

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• I really enjoy squeezing out a big lump of paint directly onto the canvas and leaving it; fresh, immediate and sometimes shocking.

  John Dyer

  Leaving, Canvas, Sometimes

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• Actors basically are the type of person that with three seconds left, we want the ball. Give us the shot to make it or miss it. We'll take the lumps if we miss it, but we want the chance to get the glory.

  Bryan Cranston

  Giving, Missing, Want

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• You can order yourself to treasure a moment, to cling tight to a feeling and never let it fade, but it's your brain, that three-pound lump of hamburger, that makes the final call.

  Isaac Marion

  Order, Feelings, Brain

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• What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

  Thomas Burnet

  Our World, Rude, World

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• Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Noses, Littles

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.129

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• New England is quite as large a lump of earth as my heart can really take in.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Earth, England

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Rappaccini's Daughter (Gothic Classic): A Medieval Dark Tale from Padua by the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.58, e-artnow

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• I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

  Henry Rollins

  Past, Long, Directors

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• As performers grow older, I reckon there are two ways they can go. They can either be up there, playing more deeply from their guts than ever, or they can be phoning it in so crassly that it leaves a lump in your throat as you leave the venue at the end of the show.

  Henry Rollins

  Two, Way, Ends

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• Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

  Winston Churchill

  Evil, Speech, Foolish

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Anyone's blood can become blue for a lump sum down.

  Nancy Astor

  Blue, Blood, Aristocracy

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Turkeys

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