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• I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on the shelves, they reminded me of cultured or opinionated guests at a wonderful party, whispering to each other.

  Janet Fitch

  Running, Party, Book

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

  Hannah Kent

  Ice, Feelings, Together

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• ...Something we once loved, and love now, in the shape of a book. Maybe eBooks are going to take over, one day, but not until those whizzkids in Silicon Valley invent a way to bend the corners, fold the spine, yellow the pages, add a coffee ring or two and allow the plastic tablet to fall open at a favorite page.

  Russell T Davies

  Coffee, Book, Fall

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• There lived a redheaded man who had no eyes or ears. He didn’t have hair either, so he was called a redhead arbitrarily. He couldn’t talk because he had no mouth. He had no nose either. He didn’t even have arms or legs. He had no stomach, he had no back, he had no spine, and he had no innards at all. He didn’t have anything. So we don’t even know who we’re talking about. It’s better that we don’t talk about him any more.

  Daniil Kharms

  Eye, Men, Hair

  Daniil Kharms (2007). “Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms”, Overlook Press

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• The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.

  Jack LaLanne

  People, Should, Chiropractic

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• Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta greatly enlarged, and beating with excessive force. By means of my finger nail, I scratched through the peritoneum on the left side of the aorta, and then gradually passed my finger between the aorta and the spine, and again penetrated the peritoneum, on the right side of the aorta. I had now my finger under the artery, and by its side I conveyed the blunt aneurismal needle, armed with a single ligature behind it.

  Astley Cooper

  Mean, Nails, Abdomen

  Sir Astley Cooper (1835). “Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.213

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• I have been a biologist for a long time, and I hope I never stop getting shivers in my spine when I think about the beauty of how we come to know things in biology. Biologists make predictions, then they go out into the field or the lab to see if their predictions hold up. When hundreds of predictions of this sort are fulfilled, a theory reaches the point where it becomes certain, at least on a broad level. And that is where we are with evolution.

  Darrel R. Falk

  Thinking, Long, Levels

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• Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.

  Chris Hadfield

  Fun, Heart, Space Flight

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.137, Pan Macmillan

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• Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

  John Jakes

  Adventure, Eye, Promise

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• Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Spiritual, Real, Musings

  Neal A. Maxwell (1999). “One More Strain of Praise”, Deseret Book Company

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• Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Couple, Mean, Dark

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• Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

  Michael Koryta

  Doors, House, Shadow

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• I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.

  Laini Taylor

  Beautiful, Stars, Book

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• The one who swallows cactuses with spines should not complain about hemorrhoids.

  Etgar Keret

  Complaining, Hemorrhoids, Should

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• I once recommended [in a San Francisco Chronicle column] that a third arm - a plastic arm - be sewn at the base of the spine so that people could have a tripod to sit on while waiting in line, and it was taken seriously.

  Alan Abel

  Taken, San Francisco, Waiting In Line

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I've always loved animals. I've never lived without them. As long as I can remember, I was bringing home strays. When I was five, I brought home a stray kitten I named Tiger. This was my first rescued animal. It wasn't until I became an actor, and then injured my spine, that I discovered that these animals were actually very therapeutic and helped me to cope with my chronic pain.

  Ken Wahl

  Pain, Home, Animal

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• The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.

  Will Durst

  Cells, Research, Bills

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• His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that

  Tahereh Mafi

  Years, Names, Cracks

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• The ever-mounting glut of waste materials is characteristic by-product of modern consumer society. It might even be argued that capitalism's continual need to find of generate markets means that disposibility and waste have become the spine of the system. To consume means, literally, to destroy or expend, and in the garbage crisis we confront the underlying truth of a society in which enormous productive capacities and market forces have harnessed human needs and desires, without regard to the long or even short-term future of life on the planet.

  Stuart Ewen

  Mean, Long, Desire

  Stuart Ewen (1999). “All Consuming Images: The Politics of Style in Contemporary Culture”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

  Dick York

  Pain, Long, Giving

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• Now, I'm a mixer. I can't help it. It's my nature. I like men. I like the taste of their boots, the smell of their legs, and the sound of their voices. It may be weak of me, but a man has only to speak to me, and a sort of thrill goes down my spine and sets my tail wagging.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Dog, Fun, Men

  "The Man with Two Left Feet: And Other Stories".

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• Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beautiful, Fall, Health

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420

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• When in sickness, look to the spine first.

  Hippocrates

  Looks, Firsts, Sickness

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• Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest form of emotion that humanity has attained when evolving pure art and pure science. Let us worship the spine and its tingle.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Humanity, Mind

  Vladimir Nabokov (2017). “Lectures on Literature”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The man hates your guts more than Stryker does. You’ll be lucky if he doesn’t pull your spine out through your nostrils. (Tory) Nice to have Miss Merry Sunshine back again. Any other Eeyore outlooks you’d like to share? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Nice, Sunshine

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “One Silent Night”, p.117, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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