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• The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

  Quentin Crisp

  Hot, England, Haze

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 13, 1968.

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• It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

  Edward Gibbon

  Religious, Inquiry

  'Memoirs of My Life' (1796) ch. 4

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• What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal

  Emily Dickinson

  Loneliness, Dark, Soul

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.588, Harvard University Press

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• As soon as I enter office I am going to ask Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to begin a comprehensive review of these cases in order to develop a list of regions and countries from which immigration must be suspended until proven and effective vetting mechanisms can be put in place.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Order, Justice

  Source: time.com

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• Countries in which immigration will be suspended would include places like Syria and Libya.And we are going to stop the tens of thousands of people coming in from Syria. We have no idea who they are, where they come from. There's no documentation. There's no paperwork.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Ideas, People

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• As for the differences of opinion upon speculative questions, if we wait till they are reconciled, the action of human affairs must be suspended forever. But neither are we to look for perfection in any one man, nor for agreement among many.

  Junius

  Men, Differences, Perfection

  Junius, Sir Philip Francis (1813). “Junius. Stat nominis umbra”, p.310

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• Surfers are the canaries down the mine. Those of us who surf spend more time than anyone soaking in whatever the sea has become. We're suspended in consequences, you might say.

  Tim Winton

  Sea, Might, Surf

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Dinner, Madness

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• I know with certainty, that [an honest man] is not to put his hand into the fire, and hold it there, till it be consumed: And thisevent, I think I can foretell with the same assurance, as that, if he throw himself out at the window, and meet with no obstruction, he will not remain a moment suspended in the air.

  David Hume

  Men, Thinking, Fire

  David Hume (1894). “An Enquiry Concerning the Human Understanding: And An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals”

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• Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch beauty would be to understand how that impertinent stability in vertigo is possible. But no, delight need not reach so far. To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  Anne Carson

  Beauty, Running, Moving

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• I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

  Damon Wayans, Jr.

  Class, Feet, Tree

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

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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• Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Air, Saws, Lap

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• Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

  Don Feder

  Christian, Religious, Subsidies

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• This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

  Freya Stark

  Doe, Desert, Accessories

  Freya Stark (2011). “Baghdad Sketches: Journeys Through Iraq”, p.99, Tauris Parke Paperbacks

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• What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended by a thin thread.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pregnancy, Creativity, Birth

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• Thoughts and feelings are suspended in a vacuum unless they instigate and feed the selected actions, and it is the characters actions which reveal the character in the play.

  Uta Hagen

  Character, Play, Feelings

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• Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

  Pier Paolo Pasolini

  Important, Doe, Add

  Pier Paolo Pasolini (2005). “P.P.P., Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Death”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

  William Minto

  Attitude, Independent, Men

  William Minto “Logic, Inductive and Deductive”, Рипол Классик

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• "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

  Dar Williams

  Dance, Loneliness, Moving

  Song: As Cool As I Am, Album: Mortal City

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• We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Touching, Mediocrity, Pits

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• And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey, suspended in the blinding, sunlit blue. And yet how gentle it seems to someone raised in a landscape short of rain- the skyline of a hill broken by no more trees than one can count, the grass, the empty sky, the wish for water.

  Dana Gioia

  Summer, Hate, Rain

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.35, Macmillan

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• I stood within the city disinterred;
  And heard the autumnal leaves like light footfalls
  Of spirits passng through the streets;
  and heard the Mountain's slumberous voice at intervals
  Thrill through those roofless halls;
  The oracular thunder penetrating shook
  The listening soul in my suspended blood.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Light, Blood, Cities

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.544

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• NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans benefits will kick in.

  Conan O'Brien

  Nbc, Six Months, Benefits

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