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• People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Dark, Artist

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• The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

  Conrad Hall

  Light, Sun, Far Away

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• Growing up where I did, the thought of working on a television show or in a movie... that existed on a parallel plane, you know?

  Jennifer Garner

  Growing Up, Television, Planes

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• The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.

  Barney Frank

  Ambition, Reality, Essentials

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• Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Nature, Environment

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• And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this train is going.

  Bruce Catton

  Track, Shining, Steel

  Bruce Catton, Oliver Jensen (1993). “Bruce Catton's America: Selections from His Greatest Works”, Promontory

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• To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.

  Alan Bleasdale

  Love, Heart, Exercise

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• Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Faith, Atheist

  The Devil's Dictionary

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• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Math, Degrees, Chef

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• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

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• ....there is an ending [to Infinite Jest] as far as I'm concerned. Certain kind of parallel lines are supposed to start converging in such a way that an "end" can be projected by the reader somewhere beyond the right frame. If no such convergence or projection occured to you, then the book's failed for you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Lines, Way

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• Our shadows, now parallel, now close together and joined, traced an exquisite pattern at our feet.

  Marcel Proust

  Feet, Shadow, Together

  Marcel Proust (1999). “The captive & the fugitive”

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• The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, Accomplish Nothing, People

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.30, Beacon Press

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• Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force of her will.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Moon, Two, Energy

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.31, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, Blue, Skills

  "The Fifth Elephant". Book by ‎Terry Pratchett, 1999.

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• Probably in a parallel universe not far from here, I'm working for Nintendo.

  David Mitchell

  Nintendo, Parallel Universe, Universe

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• I considered the case and realized that if something can exist in opinion without existing in reality, or exist in reality without existing in opinion, the conclusion is that of the two parallel lives, only opinion is necessary – not reality, which is only a secondary consideration.

  Machado de Assis

  Reality, Two, Opinion

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.6, University of Texas Press

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• Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Baby

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• I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Men, Self, Trying

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• Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Two, Voice

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• The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Sacrifice, Self

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• The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

  H. G. Wells

  World Government, Order, Nwo

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• When I am with my family, then I can just sort of switch off. It's kind of weird, because I go back and I go into this bedroom that I have had since I was a teenager. It is like this parallel universe, because one minute I am on the red carpet and then the next I am hiding out in this room I have had since I was 15.

  Florence Welch

  Teenager, Red, Rooms

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• Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

  Bill Vaughan

  Baseball, Umpires, Parking Space

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• I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.

  Calvin Trillin

  Talent, Parking

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