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• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting to me.

  Don Felder

  Music, Memorable, Guitar

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• In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

  Brandon Stanton

  Iphone, Age, Bus

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• Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Men, Cake, Should Have

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• We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

  John D. Barrow

  Density, Quarks, Maximum

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• Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

  Lee Smolin

  Believe, Might, Possibility

  Lee Smolin (2007). “The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next”, p.269, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.

  Megan Hart

  Thinking, Two, Broken

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• Bracelets with white symbols?” Michael made the question casual; in fact, he bent his head and concentrated on tuning his guitar, not that it needed it. Every note sounded perfect as it whispered out of the strings. “Do you remember?” “No.” She felt a pure burst of something that wasn’t quite panic, wasn’t quite excitement. “Does that mean they have Protection?” He hesitated for about a second, just long enough for her to know he was surprised. “You mean condoms?” he asked. “Doesn’t everybody?

  Rachel Caine

  Mean, Guitar, White

  Rachel Caine (2006). “Glass Houses: The Morganville Vampires”, p.38, Penguin

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• All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

  Guy Clark

  Guitar, Nylon, Firsts

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• It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.

  Cassandra Clare

  Together, Fallen Angels, Sentences

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1509, Simon and Schuster

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• People say it's better to know the truth, but what if the ending's a bad one? Is it still better to know? Or is it kinder to keep that string of hope dangling? To believe that maybe if you just wait long enough, everything could still end the way you want.

  Cynthia Lord

  Believe, Long, People

  Cynthia Lord (2012). “Touch Blue”, p.64, Scholastic Inc.

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• One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.

  A. S. J. Tessimond

  Rain, Winter, Simple

  A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Love, Wedding, Past

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played upon by a divine hand, but not a man!

  John Grier Hibben

  Responsibility, Loss, Men

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• I want to pull very long, multi-colored strings out of my brain and place them next to a bowl of Doritos at a party

  Megan Boyle

  Party, Long, Brain

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• A SWEET disorder in the dress
  Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
  A lawn about the shoulders thrown
  Into a fine distraction :
  An erring lace which here and there
  Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
  A cuff neglectful, and thereby
  Ribbons to flow confusedly :
  A winning wave (deserving note)
  In the tempestuous petticoat :
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
  I see a wild civility :
  Do more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Art, Winning

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

  Bernie Worrell

  Writing, Cutting, Track

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• It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Distance, Space

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Looking back over sixty-odd years, life is like a piece of string with knots in it, the knots being those moments that live in the mind forever, and the intervals being hazy, half-recalled times when I have a fair idea of what was happenng, in a general way, but cannot be sure of dates or places or even the exact order in which events took place.

  George MacDonald Fraser

  Order, Years, Ideas

  George MacDonald Fraser (1992). “Quartered safe out here: a recollection of the war in Burma”, Harvill Press

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• Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

  Louis Leakey

  Religious, Men, Magic

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.

  Charles Lamb

  Charity, Purses, Philanthropy

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.138

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• What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Sergei Lukyanenko, Vladimir Nikolaevich Vasilʹev (2007). “Day watch”, Miramax

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• It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not where you've been. You're still an innocent. It's okay life is a tough crowd, 32 is still growing up now.

  Taylor Swift

  Growing Up, Light, Waiting

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• He's bent over the strings tuning his guitar with such passionate attention I almost feel I should look away but I can't. In fact I'm full on gawking wondering what it would be like to be cool and casual and fearless and passionate and so freaking alive just like he is- and for a split second I want to play with him. I want to disturb the birds. Later as he plays and plays as all the fog burns away I think he's right. That's exactly it- I am crazy sad and somewhere deep inside all I want is to fly.

  Jandy Nelson

  Crazy, Thinking, Fog

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.54, Penguin

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• He's only silent because he's too thick to string two words together.

  J. K. Rowling

  Two, Together, Silent

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• She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Men, Class

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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