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• At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I began seeing purple elephants in the air vents at the office. I knew I shouldn't have asked her about them. I thought maybe she'd redecorated.

  Darynda Jones

  Lying, Fall, Sleep

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Soon the purple dark must bruise
  Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
  And the little Cupid lose
  Eyes and ears and chin and nose

  Donald Justice

  Heart, Eye, Dark

  Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.40, Knopf

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• Long hours
  trail in their purple
  and long years are lost
  in just this moment
  while our souls are near,
  our mouths separate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Years, Long

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs."

  Pharrell Williams

  Song, Kids, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• Genius is talent provided with ideals. Genius starves while talent wears purple and fine linen. The man of genius of today will infifty years' time be in most cases no more than a man of talent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Years, Genius

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• My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

  John Slattery

  Mom, Memories, Poison

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Over in Iraq after you vote they paint your finger purple so you can't vote again. It's a flawless system. It works perfectly unless, of course, someone has paint remover.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Flawless, Vote

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• August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple.

  Jean Hersey

  Weed, Sweet, Garden

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• Calum offered to paint my nails but I said no because he always uses the wrong shade of purple.

  Luke Hemmings

  Nails, Use, Shade

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• When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soldier, Becoming, Rags

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.21, Booklassic

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• President Obama is in China now for an economic summit in Beijing. The president wore a traditional purple silk shirt along with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. That's after they taught Putin how to put a shirt ON.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Chinese, President, Taught

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• You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.

  Gilbert Melendez

  Mma, Black, Sometimes

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• I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.

  Jim Lehrer

  Wine, Blue, Ties

  "PBS’s Judy Woodruff, Jim Lehrer reflect on prior presidential races". Interview with Betsy Rothstein, thehill.com. September 8, 2008.

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• If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose and elect and defend to be first of all Americans; to present to the world one homogeneous and unbroken front, whether of white Americans or black ones or purple or blue or green... If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don't deserve to survive, and probably won't.

  William Faulkner

  Children, Blue, Color

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• We didn't have a strong drug scene by any means. Originally, it was just purple hearts, amphetamines, speed or whatever you want to call it. When The Beatles went down south, they sometimes brought back cannabis and gradually the drug scene developed in Liverpool.

  Bob Wooler

  Strong, Heart, Mean

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• To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines,
  Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

  Alexander Pope

  Wine, Vines, Slumber

  Alexander Pope, Pat Rogers (2008). “The Major Works”, p.533, Oxford University Press

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• Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
  Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

  John Milton

  Crush, Sweet, Wine

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.70

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• Always been purple. Like I remember being in the first grade, looking up at the color charts, and saying, 'Man, purple is the best color, man, it's the best color, it just is the best color.' I have a lot of purple shirts and stuff, I'm always wearing purple.

  Synyster Gates

  Men, Color, Stuff

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• My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.

  Andrea Barber

  Character, Yellow, Feet

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• Certainly the effort to remain unchanged, young, when the body gives so impressive a signal of change as the menopause, is gallant; but it is a stupid, self-sacrificial gallantry, better befitting a boy of twenty than a woman of forty-five or fifty. Let the athletes die young and laurel-crowned. Let the soldiers earn the Purple Hearts. Let women die old, white-crowned, with human hearts.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Stupid, Athlete, Heart

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.5, Grove Press

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• Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages.  You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

  Peter Golenbock

  Character, Opportunity, Twenties

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• Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Wall, Passion, Artist

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• If with love thy heart has burned; If thy love is unreturned; Hide thy grief within thy breast, Though it tear thee unexpressed; For when love has once departed From the eyes of the false-hearted, And one by one has torn off quite The bandages of purple light; Though thou wert the loveliest Form the soul had ever dressed, Thou shalt seem, in each reply, A vixen to his altered eye; Thy softest pleadings seem too bold, Thy praying lute will seem to scold; Though thou kept the straightest road, Yet thou errest far and broad.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Grief, Heart

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.55, Delphi Classics

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• In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!

  Jim Gaffigan

  Girl, New York, Hair

  "Comic Gaffigan Gets A Hayseed's Welcome to New York". "Sun-Sentinel" Newspaper, December 27, 2000.

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• At the morgue, people were so desensitized that they would eat lunch in the glass walled room adjacent to the autopsy room. A viewing room. Because it had the best air conditioning in the building. So they would eat in there and maybe somebody would come in who had been found after being dead for three days and they would say: That is the exact purple I want for those drapes in the study. They didn't miss a beat. They could eat through anything.

  David Sedaris

  Air, Lunch, Glasses

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