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• Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

  Toni Morrison

  Butterfly, Tangible, Absence

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• May, queen of blossoms,
  And fulfilling flowers,
  With what pretty music
  Shall we charm the hours?
  Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
  Blown in the open mead?
  Or to the lute give heed
  In the green bowers.

  Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

  Queens, Flower, Giving

  Edward Thurlow, “May”

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• We are not depending on a reed shaken by the wind, but on the Priniciple of Life Itself, for all that we have or ever shall need. It is not some Power, or a great Power, it is all power.

  Ernest Holmes

  Life, Power, Wind

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• Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

  Philip James Bailey

  Mistake, Wind, Rivers

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.139

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• The Raven's house is built with reeds, — Sing woe, and alas is me! And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds, High on the hollow tree; And the Raven himself, telling his beads In penance for his past misdeeds, Upon the top I see.

  Thomas D

  Weed, Past, Ravens

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• My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

  Zoot Sims

  Music, Mom, Jazz

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• I never felt comfortable about my looks until I married Reed Vreeland. I believe in love at first sight because that's what it was. I knew the moment our eyes met that we would marry.

  Diana Vreeland

  Believe, Eye, Sight

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable instruments. A man might work out the whole of mathematics with a handful of pebbles, but not with a handful of clay which was always falling apart into new fragments, and falling together into new combinations. A man might measure heaven and earth with a reed, but not with a growing reed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fall, Men, Work Out

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

  Khalil Gibran

  Music, Stupid, Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda, I feel a deep obligation to the men and women who have risked life and limb on our behalf.

  Al Franken

  Warrior, Men, Iraq

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• That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Art, Secret

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• Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Party, Drinking, Mean

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• For a while, the gay thing seemed like such a big deal. But now, I don't think it is. It's just a comedy-drama about people who live in the United States. It's a slice-of-life. I play a character-that's it. But I was well aware of the gay lifestyle before the show. I've been hit on in a really strong way by gay men who've tried to convert me, and a lot of my heroes are gay. William Burroughs, Lou Reed. Well, I guess Lou Reed is bi. The point is, it's 2002, gay life is no longer that shocking.

  Gale Harold

  Strong, Drama, Hero

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• God picks up the reed-flute world and blows. Each note is a need coming through one of us, a passion, a longing pain. Remember the lips where the wind-breath originated, and let your note be clear. Don't try to end it. Be your note.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Pain, Passion

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• The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand; there I represented it in the reeds.

  Caspar David Friedrich

  Sand, Divine, Grain

  "Absent Presences in Liminal Places: Murnau's Nosferatu and the Otherworld of Stoker's Dracula" by Saviour Catania in Literature Film Quarterly, 2004.

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• Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Philosophical, Ignorance

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Lying, School

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.34, Penguin

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• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

  Lee Konitz

  Simple, Years, Play

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• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  Alice James

  Loss, Vulgarity Is, Trials

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moon, Fire, Water

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.108, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.

  J. C. Ryle

  Godly, Feet, Smoking

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Tattoo, Kayla, Wrists

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• But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.

  Aaron Swartz

  Book, Needs, Heritage

  Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.26, The New Press

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• Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

  Joseph Cotten

  Men, Doubt, Shadow

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