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• There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Book, Men, Dust

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.308, e-artnow

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• I longed to know the world's name.

  Robert Penn Warren

  World, Knows

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.340, LSU Press

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• A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names.' He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Summer, Children, Regret

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “Summer Lightning: (Blandings Castle)”, p.10, Random House

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• During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a woman with lips blue with cold who was standing behind me, and of course had never heard of my name, came out of the numbness which affected us all and whispered in my ear—(we all spoke in whispers there): ‘Could you describe this?’ I said, ‘I can!’ Then something resembling a smile slipped over what had once been her face.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Blue, Numbness, Years

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• The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might not be why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate? We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Creativity, Thinking

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.185, John Wiley & Sons

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• I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

  Emily Dickinson

  Night, Covered Up, Two

  "I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

  Susanna Clarke

  Arrogance, Polite, Wells

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.799, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She couldn’t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry scholarly monk from the Dark Ages. Denniston: think English preparatory school, stolid country squire. Nothing about his name sounded the least bit romantic.

  Regina Doman

  Country, Fall, School

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• But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of God, marred by the hand of man and must we say in the name of God? And where is the reckoning for such things? And who is answerable? One might almost shrink from the sound of his own voice, which had launched into the palpitating air words of order- do we call it? - fraught with such ruin. Was it God's command we heard or His forgiveness we must forever implore?

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Men, Air, Hands

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• For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spoken of Irene under other names; perhaps I have spoken only of Irene.

  Italo Calvino

  Cities, Different, Entering

  Italo Calvino (2013). “Invisible Cities”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Art, Prayer, Giving

  "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1926)

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• To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

  Paul Valery

  Photography, Vision, Forget

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• The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must be checked, so that they will fight for slavery as they would for salvation, and will think it not shameful, but a most honorable achievement, to give their life and blood that one man may have a ground for boasting.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Fighting, Men, Thinking

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• Don't you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Fall, School

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 25, 2012

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• your name your name, paragal, in the old toung, means 'one of pure light' and so you once were. but know this: when your stroke gfalls, so shall your own star fall. Your light will go out, and you will earn a newname. You shall be caled paragor - 'one of true darkness.' darkness will be your dwelling place and it will consume you. You willl ever be hungry for what you can naver have, No darkness in alleble will be as you

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Stars, Fall, Mean

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• Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.

  Sarah Vowell

  Shields, Speak, Melancholy

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not law, but my uncle insisted, and in the end I gave in. I’m an orphan, and someday I’ll be a lawyer. That’s what I told my aunt and uncle, and then I shut myself in my room and cried all night.

  Roberto Bolano

  Uncles, School, Aunt

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• And he don't know...that I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped up 4 wheel drive, carved my name into his leather seats. I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, slashed a hole in all 4 tires...Maybe, next time he'll think before he cheats.

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, Keys, Louisville

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• I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Witty

  Oscar Levant (1965). “The Memoirs of an Amnesiac”

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• In the name of Annah the Allmaziful, the Everliving, the Bringer of Plurabilities, haloed be her eve, her singtime sung, her rill be run, unhemmed as it is uneven!

  James Joyce

  Running, Finnegans Wake

  James Joyce (2016). “Finnegans Wake”, p.91, James Joyce

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• Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

  Robin McKinley

  Creepy, Vampire, Mets

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• A powerful, victorious ally is yet another name for master.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Powerful, Allies, Masters

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• The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.

  William Shakespeare

  Hue, Hamlet And Ophelia, Speech

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

  Susanna Clarke

  Character, Needs, Facts

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.405, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

  Angela Carter

  Losing, Process

  Angela Carter (2011). “Heroes and Villains”, p.243, Penguin UK

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