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• Hasn’t anyone ever told you,” Jesse asked, in a semi-amused voice, “ that a gentleman never lays a hand on a lady?” Which I thought was kind of funny, considering where Jesse had had his hand the last time I’d seen him. But I thought it better to let that slide.

  Meg Cabot

  Hands, Voice, Gentleman

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.80, Pan Macmillan

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• That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardrooms or the war rooms either. It starts in the home.

  Steve Toltz

  War, Stupid, Home

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or the blindingly exquisite fish of the imagination before they whip away on the endless current and are lost for ever in oblivion's black ocean.

  Mervyn Peake

  Ocean, Imagination, Effort

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• I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Grief, Moving, Book

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• One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.

  Ben Whishaw

  Theatre, Intention, Repetition

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Doe, Clubs

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

  Diane Lane

  Thinking, Soul, Secret

  "12 Movie Stars Who Experienced Career Resurrections", www.indiewire.com. October 31, 2013.

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• Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water slide?'

  Sam Kinison

  Jesus, Water, Heaven

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• I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!

  Ken Hensley

  Men, Thinking, Guitar

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• Peter stood up and let a wicked smile slide across his face. "Time to play.

  Brom

  Play, Wicked, Faces

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• I have a sliding glass door on my closet, and when I slide it one way I can see all my uniforms, and the other way is all my own clothes.

  Elle Fanning

  Clothes, Glasses, Doors

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• If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

  Steve Carell

  Waiting, Kind, Parking

  "Steve Carell taps into his inner super-villain in 'Despicable Me'". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodnews.com. June 29, 2010.

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• Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.

  Cory Doctorow

  Past, Stories, Emotion

  Cory Doctorow (2015). “Eastern Standard Tribe”, p.12, Booklassic

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• Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

  David Brainerd

  Time, Pain, Purpose

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.246

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• What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

  Lady Gaga

  Falling In Love, Art, Lying

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• I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record. I would slide into second with my prostheses, and the girl on the base could either step aside or meet two wooden sticks.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Girl, Player

  "What Are the New Secrets to Getting Ahead? Inspiring Ladies Spill to Glamour's 2012 Top 10 College Women!" by Lauren Iannotti, www.glamour.com. April 4, 2012.

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• Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

  Muddy Waters

  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• Parminder kept her unwept tears locked tightly inside where they seemed to undergo an alchemical transformation, returning to the outer world as lava slides of rage.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tears, World, Lava

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• I always say, 'If you can't give a reason for the banana peel being in the alley, then don't have the comic slide over it.' Do you understand what I mean? First explain how the banana peel got there quickly. And then there's a reason for all the comedy.

  Elaine Stritch

  Mean, Giving, Firsts

  "Interview: Elaine Stritch from ’30 Rock’". FanBolt Interview, www.fanbolt.com. May 7, 2010.

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• You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

  Jay-Z

  Self, The End Of The Day, World

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.47, Random House Group

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• Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

  Anita Shreve

  Hurt, Thinking, Water

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• You don’t trust any man, Ephani. (Danger) And neither should you, little sister. Take a bit of Amazon advice. Ride him into the ground all night long, then slide a blade between his ribs come morning. (Ephani) That's harsh. (Alexion) So is life. (Ephani)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Morning, Night, Men

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• I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, People

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• Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

  Susan Orlean

  Fate, Decision, Borders

  "Bookmarked" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2011.

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• The last time I saw a brow that low I was watching slides in anthropology class

  Jennifer Crusie

  Class, Lasts, Saws

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Bet Me”, p.24, Macmillan

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