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• Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.

  Amani

  Beautiful, Life Is

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• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Book, Hours

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• I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world.

  Herman Melville

  Flags, Half, World

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.389, Velvet Element Books

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• The point is,” Caine continued, “you and I share something in common, Sam. We were born just three minutes apart.” Sam felt a tingle go up his spine. “Three minutes,” Caine said, moving closer. “You go first. And then me.” “No,” Sam said. “It can’t be.” “It can,” Caine said. “It is. And you are… brother.

  Michael Grant

  Brother, Moving, Three

  Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.115, Harper Collins

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• It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Boys, Rocks, Miami

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his spine, all at once,' Sebastian had said. 'I guess we got the same birthday present that year, big brother,' Jace thought. 'Didn't we?

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Men

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “City of Glass”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Study, Fortitude, Name Of The Wind

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• My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.

  Kate Morton

  Eye, Dust, Soul

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Complaining

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2014

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• This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know?

  Jerry Lewis

  Pain, Fall, Cutting

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• I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Eye, Moon

  Marge Piercy (2013). “What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems”, p.69, Knopf

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• That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is fair.' Life isn't FAIR, Dean....Nothing is fair, EVER. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I need to help you because FAIR IS FAIR? Try, 'I need you to help me so I won't rip out your spine and beat you with it.' I MIGHT respond to that. MAYBE.

  James Patterson

  Rip, Trying, Stronger

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• On the night Test faced the Great One, this is what he'll see... twelve sharpshooters stinging, eleven eyebrows raising, ten spines a'bustin, nine noggins knocking, eight kicks a'kicking, seven punches punching, six suplexes smashing, five seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name... four Rock Bottoms, three People's Elbows, on your two buckteeth, and an ass-kicking all over New Orleans!

  Dwayne Johnson

  Night, Two, New Orleans

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• Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

  Liz Cheney

  Brain, Politics, Problem

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• My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever.

  Bill Walton

  Running, Pain, Life Changing

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com.

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• I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

  Alex Sink

  Responsibility, Want, Cabinets

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• A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Integrity

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• You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fear, Fall, Feelings

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread Locks #1”, p.14, Penguin

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• But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.

  Andrea Gibson

  Loneliness, Bruises, Hitting

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• I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

  Bill Walton

  Hands, Two, Ankles

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com. September 21, 2011.

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• That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Suicide, Heart, Bars

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Cooking Dinner, Laughing

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• History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Dog, Ice, History

  Tracy K. Smith, “Sci-Fi”

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• If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Emotional, Problem, Psychological

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• Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

  Jerome Groopman

  Sports, Pain, Frustration

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