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• To lovers, I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, and aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.

  Williston Fish

  Love, Sweet, Stars

  "A Last Will," Harper'sWeekly, 3 Sept. 1898

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• They give me a shot and a handful of pills to swallow. I stare at the thin red wall of my inner eyelid and listen to my skin and I can't be sure how the medication is affecting me. I can't remember how I'm supposed to feel. I can't remember my name. I have never seen my face.

  Will Christopher Baer

  Wall, Numbness, Names

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• Visualize a sphere, a dome of red energy surrounding you. Feel that you are consciously directing energy from the center of your body, in the area of your naval.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Body, Domes

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• I am young in my energy because I really still believe that we can share who we are, and we can wipe off on each other. I see this huge tapestry when we're born, and this red blob that's your soul or your heart.

  Chita Rivera

  Believe, Heart, Soul

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

  Morgan Freeman

  People, Want, Given

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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• If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

  Diogenes

  Good Friend, Enemy, Hot

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.

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• The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cities, Clothes

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• Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Light, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.146

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Corn, Poppies, Midst

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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• The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

  Jesse Jackson

  Character, Opportunity, Order

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• Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Dryden

  Flesh, Way, Steering

  John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Passion, Wine

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Beauty, Eye, White

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, War, Moon

  Philip James Bailey (1860). “Festus: A Poem”, p.466

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Passion, Humanity, Green

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• It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Simple, Blue, Simplicity

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

  George Crabbe

  Hollies, Moss, Yew

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• The distinct blue, red, and yellow colors... though they have not the kind of harmony which is produced by a variety of broken and transparent colors, have the effect of grandeur.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Blue, Color, Yellow

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• What did Napolean do for relaxation? He read a book. What did Lincoln do for relaxation? He read a book. What does Congress do for relaxation? They book a red.

  Jimmy Durante

  Book, Relaxation, Doe

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• Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the walls and greenery, the ultramarine and cobalt of the sky achieved an extreme harmony that was sensually and musically ordered.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Wall, Orange, Color

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• I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

  Sam Donaldson

  War, Blood, Vietnam

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• The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.

  Anna Sui

  Bible, Fashion, Vogue Magazine

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• Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.

  Todd Solondz

  Eye, Fate, Pride

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• The summer day is closed, the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of whose train goes softly out In the red west.

  Bear Bryant

  Summer, Twilight, Office

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