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• Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.

  Joanne Harris

  Feelings, Devil, Admiration

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• Yes, I wanted to win! I wanted the belt! I'm a belt mark! I want to sleep with it! I want to wear that and nothing else to church on Sunday!

  CM Punk

  Sleep, Sunday, Winning

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• The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

  Kim Stanley

  Funny, Adventure, Climbing

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• I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a great career out of it, and they found a way to do it and still be cool guys, so that's kind of where I want to be.

  Kenny Wormald

  Boston, Careers, Guy

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• I read an interview with Mark Wahlberg, and he was like, ‘I might read a script and love it, but it’s all about the filmmaker.’ I think that’s a good lesson for me.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Thinking, And Love, Lessons

  "Shiloh Fernandez" by John Ortved, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Book, People

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jan 11, 2017

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• Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.

  Noah Lukeman

  Expression, Simplicity, Clarity

  Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I know a girl, she been married so many times, she got rice marks all over her face

  Tom Waits

  Girl, Faces, Married

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• A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

  Jenny Holzer

  Genius, Timing

  Jenny Holzer (1983). “Truisms and essays”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice - keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Inspirational, Leadership, Determination

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• The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

  Burl Ives

  Spring, Wind, Long

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail you'll begin to see something, maybe. Probably not.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Blood, Hands

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

  Edward Abbey

  Reality, Trying, Quotation Marks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

  Edward Abbey

  Kings, White, Tables

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never even went to college.

  Edward Abbey

  College, London, Best American

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• The English landscape at its finest - such as I saw this morning - possesses a quality that the landscapes of other nations, however more superficially dramatic, inevitably fail to possess. It is, I believe, a quality that will mark out the English landscape to any objective observer as the most deeply satisfying in the world, and this quality is probably best summed up by the term 'greatness.'

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Morning, Believe, Greatness

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.28, Vintage

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• Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuous people, this instument will bind us together in mutual interests, mutual welfare, and mutual happiness. But when we become old and corrupt, it will bind no longer.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mutual Interest, Long, People

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• Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

  Chinua Achebe

  Men, Missing, Twigs

  Chinua Achebe (1992). “Things Fall Apart”, Everyman's Library

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• Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value has shifted away from a copy toward the many ways to recall, annotate, personalize, edit, authenticate, display, mark, transfer, and engage a work. Art is a conversation, not a patent office. The citation of sources belongs to the realms of journalism and scholarship, not art. Reality can’t be copyrighted.

  David Shields

  Art, Reality, Economic Models

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• I should have caught the mistake on that spelling bee card. But as Mark Twain once said, `You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word'.

  Dan Quayle

  Mistake, Men, Should Have

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• Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

  William Safire

  Quotation Marks, Quotations

  William Safire, Leonard Safir (1990). “Words of Wisdom”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• I couldn’t get near what I wanted through seeing, recognizing and recreating, so I stood the problem on its head. I started studying squares, rectangles, triangles and the sensations they give rise to It is untrue that my work depends on any literary impulse or has any illustrative intention. The marks on the canvas are sole and essential agents in a series of relationships which form the structure of the painting.

  Bridget Riley

  Squares, Giving, Essentials

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• The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Memories, Class, Scotland

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

  Alain Badiou

  Destiny, Encounters, Transition

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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