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• Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Drinking, Wine

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• I didn't think i could possibly love another baby as much as I loved the one I'd already had," I continue. "But the strangest thing happened when I held you for the first time. It was like my heart suddenly unfolded. Like there was this secret space I didn't even know existed, and there was room for both of you." I stare at her. "Once my feelings were stretched like that, there was no going back. Without you, it just would have felt empty.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baby, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “Lone Wolf: A Novel”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• All that we are not stares back at what we are.

  W. H. Auden

  Crazy, Mad

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• Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That's the challenge: To be afraid and know people are staring at you and know you might not do all that well, but you do it anyway. What singles out the successful athlete from the ones who never make it past a plateau, it that successful athletes risk failure, even though they are terrified.

  Aimee Mullins

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• You swore you'd never compromise With the mystery tramp, but now you realise He's not selling any alibis As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes And say, do you want to make a deal How does it feel

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophical, Eye, Want

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• What is this life if, full of care,
  We have no time to stand and stare.
  No time to stand beneath the boughs
  And stare as long as sheep or cows.
  No time to see, when woods we pass,
  Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.
  No time to see, in broad daylight,
  Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
  No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
  And watch her feet, how they can dance.
  No time to wait till her mouth can
  Enrich that smile her eyes began.
  A poor life this if, full of care,
  We have no time to stand and stare.

  W. H. Davies

  Spiritual, Stars, Eye

  W. H. Davies (2015). “The True Traveller: A Reader”, p.264, Carcanet Press Ltd

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• The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, People, Mind

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2014). “The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers Vol II: 1937-1943: From Novelist to Playwright”, p.43, St. Martin's Press

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• She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

  Diane Duane

  Tree, Walks

  Diane Duane (2003). “So You Want to Be a Wizard”, p.62, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It would go a long way to caution and direct people in their use of the world that they would better studied and known in the creation of it. For how could man find the confidence to abuse it, while they should see the Great Creator stare them in the face, in all and every part thereof?

  William Penn

  Men, Long, People

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• Face your potential. It's been staring at you for far too long.

  Clifton Anderson

  Monday, Long, Faces

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• Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I arrive at my office at 8:37. I stay in the office until 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I get in my Porsche and I'm home at 2:03 because the one-way streets make it faster for me to drive. And between 8:36 am and 2 pm, I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.

  Thomas Harris

  Morning, Home, Writing

  "Will Hannibal the Cannibal eat Hollywood?" by Nikki Finke, www.cnn.com. June 4, 1999.

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• Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's

  Drake

  Relationship, Couple, Thinking

  Song: July

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• An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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• Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Tired, Technology, Night

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• Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere In shapes of shifting lineage; let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air. O blinding hour, O holy, terrible day, When first the shaft into his vision shone Of light anatomized! Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Peace, Hero, Air

  "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

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• The only person standing in your way is staring back at you in the mirror.

  Wes Fesler

  Responsibility, Mirrors, Way

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• There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

  Richard Branson

  Stars, Feelings, Aviation

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• One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

  Bob Seger

  Love, Life, Family

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• Dear Sir: I will wish to establish my name as the best Ethiopian songwriter. But I am not encouraged in undertaking this as long as 'The Old Folks At Home' stares me in the face with another's name on it.

  Stephen Foster

  Home, Names, Long

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• Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

  Kami Garcia

  Men, Giving, Care

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• A successful relationship is not about two people staring into each other's eyes, it's about two people looking ahead together. I think in order to construct, it's not just, "you do this, then I'll do this." It's more like, "let's work on these ideas together, and just move together, with these ideas." It does create a balance.

  Vijay Iyer

  Moving, Eye, Successful

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I do scenes with Alec Baldwin, he just stares at my boobs. That's how good of an actor he is, he finds a way.

  Jane Krakowski

  Actors, Way, Scene

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• We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Winter, Years, Sorrow

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• Vikus looked at Luxa and opened his arms. She stood, still frozen, staring at him as if he were a complete stranger. "Luxa, it's your grandpa," said Gregor. It seemed like the best and most important thing to say at the moment. "It's your grandpa." Luxa blinked. A tiny tear formed at the corner of her eye. A battle took place on her face as she tried to stop the feelings rising up inside her. The feelings won, and to Gregor's great relief, she ran into Vikus's arms.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Rising Up, Grandpa

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “Gregor the Overlander Collection:”, p.170, Scholastic Inc.

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• I stare at him coldly. "I do not care for needlework." I pause. "Unless it involves the base of the skull.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Skulls, Care, Needlework

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