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• One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Self, Tree, Legs

  "Vanessa Hudgens Hated Her 'Tree Trunk Legs,' Talks Cheetos Weight Gain" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

  Libba Bray

  Tailgates, Body, Existential

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.292, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Talk about meeting your soul mate ... I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn't some lightweight package. I'm, like, the package that didn't just come with luggage - I had trunks.

  Demi Moore

  Soulmate, Believe, Soul Mate

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• After you reach a certain age, they think you’re over. Well, I will never be over. I’ll be making records if I have to sell them out of the trunk of my car. I’ve done that in my past, and I’d do it again.

  Dolly Parton

  Past, Thinking, Car

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Nov 12, 2016

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• I've always liked long, flowing clothes,...I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.

  Stevie Nicks

  Grandmother, Clothes, Long

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• I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.

  Isabel Allende

  Beach, Autumn, Reality

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• I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on the beanstalk for a moment, then returned to mine. "You believe now. Be safe and smart up there, my Gen. Be yourself." Before I could answer, my mother turned away and walked quickly toward the house. I turned to face the beanstalk. There is no going back now, I thought. For better or worse, there was only going forward. There was only going up. Seizing the trunk of the beanstalk with both hands, I pushed off from the World Below and began to climb.

  Cameron Dokey

  Mother, Being Yourself, Sorry

  Cameron Dokey (2010). “The World Above”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to keep these trunks as a souvenir." "Now look at them." "They were splattered with blood.

  Muhammad Ali

  Blood, Boxing, Looks

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• Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

  Charlie Krueger

  Friendship, Emergencies, Jumpers

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• The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.

  Francis Bacon

  Science, Differences, Tree

  Francis Bacon (2016). “The Advancement of Learning”, p.93, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.551

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• Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

  Edwin Markham

  Grief, Heart, Wind

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• I traveled with my mother, Lela, and there was never enough money. I always had to roll down my silk stockings and carry a doll when we bought train tickets so I could go half-fare. If we had $3, we always figured how to tip for the trunks and still eat.

  Ginger Rogers

  Mother, Dolls, Half

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• I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

  Salman Rushdie

  Revenge, Hatred, Want

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

  John von Neumann

  Elephants, Four, Fit

  Attributed to John von Neumann by Enrico Fermi in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson in "Nature", Issue 427 (p. 297), www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.

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• The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

  George Balanchine

  Girl, Strong, Elephants

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• I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different leaves and they all look beautiful. But at the end of the season, they fold back up and it's still the tree trunk.

  Earl Hines

  Beautiful, Tree, Different

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• Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his brothers and sisters to share the find, Richard J. 'Foster has 'found' the spiritual disciplines that the modern world has stored away and forgot, and has excitedly called us to celebrate them. For they are, as he shows us, the instruments of joy, the way into mature Christian spirituality and abundant life.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Spiritual, Brother

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• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  Marguerite Young

  Wedding, Ghouls, Gowns

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• Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

  Lois Lowry

  Elephants, Tree, Body

  Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf

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• And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne.

  Janet Evanovich

  Jesus, Saws, Mary

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• I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

  Daniel Handler

  Strong, Jealous, Makeup

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• That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

  Dean Koontz

  Interesting, Riding, Want

  Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.334, Bantam

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• Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Law, Sky

  The Second Jungle Book "The Law of the Jungle" st. 1 (1895)

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