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• It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Animal, Surround Sound

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• The cloud of doubt that surrounds political figures tends to remain and never dissipate or be clarified.

  Bob Woodward

  Clouds, Political, Doubt

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• Surround yourself with a bunch of like-minded people, and you'll soak up their habits like a starved sponge. Fat people with fat friends care less about their weight.

  Vir Das

  People, Weight, Care

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• I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It's illimitable. It's such a happy life. There's only one thing like it, when you're up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you. You're intoxicated by the boundless space.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Happy Life, Space, Wish

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• His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!

  Paul Valery

  Heart, Islands, Grace

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• In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days ? Franz Kafka.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Sleep, Views, Facts

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are some sights that, once seen, can never be unseen. They replay themselves on a loop in your mind’s home-theatre system with Dolby surround sound until you’re so desperate to be rid of them that you’ll resort to other loops simply to dislodge them for a while.

  Kevin Hearne

  Home, Sight, Surround Sound

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.810, Del Rey

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• Luck is one thing. It has always been there, it has always been a part of my success. It's a part of everyone's success. Without it, you can't be successful. But luck is something you have to stimulate, something you have to nurture through the choices you make...That's why things have always worked out for me. Things work out not just because I'm lucky, but because I plan ahead. I figure out what I want and I go for it. I've always spent a lot of time trying to surround myself with the right people, the kinds of teammates who could lead me to my goals.

  Valentino Rossi

  Successful, People, Work Out

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• Your fear remains strong. You are not ready to face your story, preferring instead to surround yourself with knots. Someday, they will strangle you.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Strong, Fear, Stories

  "Magic Study". Book by Maria V. Snyder, 2006.

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• There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you? It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

  John Boyne

  Trying, World, Breathe

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• The whole sphere of air that surrounds us, Alma, is alive with invisible attractions — electric, magnetic, fiery and thoughtful. There is a universal sympathy all around us… When we cease all argument and debate — both internal and external — our true questions can be heard and answered…That is the gathering of magic.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thoughtful, Air, Magic

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.242, A&C Black

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• Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

  Ilchi Lee

  Self, Energy, Existence

  Ilchi Lee (2002). “Brain Respiration: Making Your Brain Creative, Peaceful, and Productive”, p.48, Healing Society

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• The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Twilight, Land, Romance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.288

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• A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.

  Alexander Grothendieck

  Moving, Sea, Water

  "Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800-1950)". Book edited by Karen Hunger Parshall and‎ Jeremy J. Gray, September 6, 2007.

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• And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all alone, crowds surround me. I have no place to flee to, unless I were to flee from myself.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Crowds, Far Away, All Alone

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• The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Real, Struggle

  "The Carnivorous Carnival". Book by Daniel Handler, 2002.

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• There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dark, Space, Light

  Diana Gabaldon (1991). “Outlander”, New York, N.Y. : Delacore Press ; Toronto : Doubleday Canada

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• And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.

  T.A. Barron

  Dream, Book, Miracle

  T. A. Barron (2011). “The Lost Years”, p.65, Penguin

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• By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Men, Bliss, Infinite

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• Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives... Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.

  J. I. Packer

  Knowing, Understanding, Soul

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• Instead of searching for what you want externally, concentrate on developing mental pictures of your desires. Surround these images with feelings of security, gratitude, and faith; and know that what you’ve been looking for is on its way to you right now.

  Doreen Virtue

  Gratitude, Feelings, Desire

  Doreen Virtue (2008). “Daily Guidance from Your Angels”, p.154, Hay House, Inc

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• I try to seek out and surround myself with people who just percolate fresh, original, and creative ideas.

  Martha Stewart

  Ideas, People, Creative

  Martha Stewart (2006). “The Martha Rules: 10 Essentials for Achieving Success as You Start, Build, or Manage a Business”, p.24, Rodale

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• Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail—and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don’t try to undo their failures. It’s not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

  Kevin Leman

  Jobs, Home, Kids

  Kevin Leman (2005). “Making Children Mind without Losing Yours”, p.20, Baker Books

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• The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark. They defend him from the realities of the age-old night.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Sunshine, Dark, Night

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Poverty, Spirit, Tender Is The Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.649, Book House

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