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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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• Never let me lose the marvel of your statue-like eyes, or the accent the solitary rose of your breath places on my cheek at night. I am afraid of being, on this shore, a branchless trunk, and what I most regret is having no flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my despair. If you are my hidden treasure, if you are my cross, my dampened pain, if I am a dog, and you alone my master, never let me lose what I have gained, and adorn the branches of your river with leaves of my estranged Autumn.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Dog, Pain, Regret

  Federico García Lorca, “Sonnet Of The Sweet Complaint”

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• Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Focus, Achievement, Effort

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.67, Random House

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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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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• 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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• The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

  Richard Allen

  Blue, Sky, White

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

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• PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Knives, Elephants

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.171, 谷月社

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• Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.

  Orlando Bloom

  Tree, Grounded, Focused

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• I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fashion, Names, Labels

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.40, D. H. Lawrence

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• Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful.

  Hans Heysen

  Beautiful, Nature, Tree

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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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• One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

  Alyson Noel

  Perfect, Car, Pairs

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

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• Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures.

  Vera Nazarian

  Inspirational, Song, Wind

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• My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end.

  Neil Jordan

  Different, Stories, Movement

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• Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Dog, Eye, Doors

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• That's a big trunk," James said, as we jammed in the leathery old case that looked so much like the black heart of some leviathan. "It fits a tuba, three suitcases, a dead dog, and a garment bag almost perfectly." "That's just what they used to say in the ads," I said.

  Michael Chabon

  Dog, Heart, Black

  "Wonder Boys". Book by Michael Chabon, March 14, 1995.

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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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• I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.

  Christopher Walken

  Actors, Stuff, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Mean, Love Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

  Aesop

  Hands, Tree, Needs

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop

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