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• I always wanted to get the Purple Heart.

  Donald Trump

  Heart, Wanted, Purple Heart

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• I was very against pink and purple when I was young, because they were girls' colors. But that was only because I didn't want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid.

  Danica Patrick

  Girl, Stupid, Writing

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• Night is a curious child, wandering
  Between earth and sky, creeping
  In windows and doors, daubing
  The entire neighborhood
  With purple paint.

  Frank Marshall Davis

  Children, Night, Sky

  Frank Marshall Davis, John Edgar Tidwell (2002). “Black Moods: Collected Poems”, p.128, University of Illinois Press

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• Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

  Charles Dickens

  Rags, Doe, Virtue

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Speeches: Literary and Social: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I never saw a purple cow;
  I never hope to see one;
  But I can tell you, anyhow,
  I'd rather see than be one.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hope, Fun, Cows

  "The Purple Cow" l. 1 (1895) See Gelett Burgess 8

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• The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

  Helen Hunt

  Autumn, Land, Golden

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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• There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

  Herman Melville

  Devil, Democracy, Wickedness

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.310, Herman Melville

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• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple,
  With a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me,
  And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves,
  And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.

  Jenny Joseph

  Summer, July, Gloves

  "Warning" l. 1 (1965)

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• An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm.

  Leatrice Eiseman

  Orchids, Joy, Inspire

  "Pantone's Radiant Orchid is 2014's Color of the Year" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Knowledge, Belief, Emperor

  Many Inventions "The Finest Story in the World" (1893)

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• When I'm with Purple, I'm totally with Purple; when I'm doing my thing, I'm totally doing my own thing.

  Tommy Bolin

  My Own

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• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sunset, Color, Long

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.

  Katharine Lee Bates

  Beautiful, 4th Of July, Sky

  "America the Beautiful" (song) (1893)

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• Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

  Carl Sandburg

  Sunset, Fire, People

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.319, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

  Bill Watterson

  Cereal, Milk, Turns

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.

  Alice Walker

  Successful, Expression, Order

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• Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Blue, Vibrations, Cleansing

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• There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood-
  Touch of manner, hint of mood;
  And my heart is like a rhyme,
  With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

  Bliss Carman

  Heart, Autumn, Blood

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

  Conor Oberst

  Life, Father, War

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• Mine the long night The secret place Where lovers meet In long embrace In purple dark In silvered kiss Forget the world And grasp your bliss

  A. S. Byatt

  Dark, Kissing, Night

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• This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Nature, Eye

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.76, Univ of California Press

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• I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

  Kobe Bryant

  Gold, Want

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Laker for life?". Interview with Marc J. Spears, www.yahoo.com. December 19, 2011.

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• He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
  With planets in His care,
  Had pity on the least of things
  Asleep upon a chair.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Care, Pity

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• And o'er the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim, Beyond the night, across the day, Thro' all the world she follow'd him.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Night, World, Hills

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, White, Littles

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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