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• Imagine: you've spent all day traipsing round London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been living on hope, ignoring reality, fuelled only by feelings you don't understand. You've been looking for a dream, never truly believing you'd find it, but now – incredibly – you have. It's right there in front of you – just behind that off-white door. It's there ...

  Kevin Brooks

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  "Candy".

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• Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

  Alexander Pope

  Nature, School, Fool

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 26

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• The law seems like a sort of maze through which a client must be led to safety, a collection of reefs, rocks, and underwater hazards through which he or she must be piloted.

  John Mortimer

  Rocks, Law, Safety

  'Clinging to the Wreckage' (1982) ch. 7

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• Has the dark shadow really disappeared? Or is it inside me, concealed, waiting for its chance to reappear? Like a clever thief hidden inside a house, breathing quietly, waiting until everyone’s asleep. I have looked deep inside myself, trying to detect something that might be there. But just as our consciousness is a maze, so too is our body. Everywhere you turn there’s darkness, and a blind spot. Everywhere you find silent hints, everywhere a surprise is waiting for you.

  Haruki Murakami

  Clever, Dark, Breathing

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I always find myself gravitating to the analogy of a maze. Think of film noir and if you picture the story as a maze, you don't want to be hanging above the maze watching the characters make the wrong choices because it's frustrating. You actually want to be in the maze with them, making the turns at their side, that keeps it more exciting...I quite like to be in that maze.

  Christopher Nolan

  Motivational, Character, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.

  William Golding

  Frowning, Lost, Vague

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.53, Hamilton Books

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• There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

  John Green

  Suffering, Labyrinth, Way

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Psychology, Soul

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• Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dream, Stars, Prayer

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• Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Airports, Rope

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• We follow a certain pattern, a maze, if you will, every day, tracing our steps into certain districts and neighborhoods and back home. So it's easy for people to relate to clichés. That's why comedy routines are based on mutual experiences of clichés.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Home, People, Patterns

  "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

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• I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

  Ray Toro

  Men, Suits, Costumes

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• I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clothes, House, Labyrinth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.199, Macmillan

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• A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

  Robert Jordan

  Dream, Men, Knows

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.333, Macmillan

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• We get lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating - lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. Nature can show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our own minds.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Thinking, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.52, New World Library

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• Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings; I know that God is good!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  God, Storm, Spirit

  John Greenleaf Whittier (2012). “Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier”, p.166, tredition

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• ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Animal, Would Be, Able

  J M Coetzee (2015). “Elizabeth Costello”, p.108, Random House

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• It is not that we propose a theory and Nature may shout NO; rather, we propose a maze of theories, and Nature may shout INCONSISTENT.

  Imre Lakatos

  Nature, Science, May

  Imre Lakatos, John Worrall, Gregory Currie (1980). “The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1: Philosophical Papers”, p.45, Cambridge University Press

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• Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

  Adam Gopnik

  Magic, Mind, Lovers

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Self, Way, Prison

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• The future is an ever-shifting maze of possibilities until it becomes the present. The future I have shown you tonight is not yet fixed. But it is more likely to become so with the passing of every day because nothing is being done to turn it aside. If you would change it, do as I have told you.

  Terry Brooks

  Tonight, Done, Shifting

  Terry Brooks (2000). “The Scions of Shannara”, p.35, Del Rey

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• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  Gaelen Foley

  Knowing, Wry Smile, Squares

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• The deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there’s a whole other world. I’m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I’m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn’t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.

  Tim Wynne-Jones

  Reading, Book, Character

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• Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived.

  Ray Bradbury

  Mirrors, Waiting, Shadow

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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