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• I come fresh from the street, fast on my feet, kind a lean and lazy; not much meat on my bones, and a whole lot alone, and more than a little bit crazy. The old six string was all I had to keep my belly still, and for each full hour lesson I gave I got a crisp ten dollar bill.

  Harry Chapin

  Crazy, Feet, Lazy

  Song: I Wanna Learn a Love Song

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• Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

  Lee Hazlewood

  Records, Lows, Heard

  "Burning brightly". Interview with Richard Hawley, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2006.

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• From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Self, Mazes, Torches

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• Like a kite Cut from the string, Lightly the soul of my youth Has taken flight.

  Takuboku Ishikawa

  Taken, Cutting, Soul

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• A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he thinks it is.

  Simon Napier-Bell

  Thinking, Expression, Order

  Simon Napier-Bell (2013). “I'm Coming To Take You To Lunch: A fantastic tale of boys, booze and how Wham! were sold to China”, p.273, Random House

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• A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.

  Richard Ford

  Believe, Book, Different

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• The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Heart, Unique, Suffering

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• Through the clouds of smoke I seemed to see all old Asia before me, and the adventures of past years behind me. A carnival of old camp-scenes danced before my mind’s eye, expiring like shooting-stars in the night—merry songs which came to an end among other mountains and the dying sound of strings and flutes. And I was surprised that I had not had enough of these things and that I was not tired of the light of camp-fires.

  Sven Hedin

  Song, Stars, Eye

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• In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.

  Thomas Goodwin

  Littles, Worship, Should

  Thomas Goodwin (1861). “The Works of Thomas Goodwin”, p.14

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• Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

  John Milton

  Iron, Soul, Tears

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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• if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.

  Anna Thomas

  Christmas, Religious, Gay

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Hands, Forever, Might

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner.

  Jean-Dominique Bauby

  Memories, Regret, Past

  Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books

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• The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Heart, Musical, Hardest

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.48

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• The trees change their voices in autumn as well as their shapes. No longer do they whisper to one another in muffled tones as they did in summer; they talk in a different leaf-language now. The wind moves through the boughs like fingers drawn across the strings of a harp filling the air with the harsh dry sound of sapless leaves. It is the main theme of the autumn music, this murmuring counterpoint of dead leaves.

  Patience Strong

  Summer, Moving, Autumn

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The very day I purchased it, I christened my guitar as my monophonic symphony, six string orchestra.

  Harry Chapin

  Guitar, Symphony, Orchestra

  Song: Six String Orchestra, 1974

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• Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Art, Thinking, Guitar

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• If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Moving

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.53, HarperCollins UK

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• There have been men who could play delightful music on one string of the violin, but there never was a man who could produce the harmonies of heaven in his soul by a one-stringed virtue.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Men, Play, Heaven

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• I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

  James Russell Lowell

  Tears, Poet, Sorrowful

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• While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Future, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

  George Eliot

  Luck, Chance, Good Chance

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6293, Delphi Classics

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• Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  New York, Struggle, Home

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• Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string?
  I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Harps, Scorn

  Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”

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