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• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry McMurtry

  Sadness, People, Sorrow

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Some Can Whistle”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Sex, Ideas, Giving

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Life of the Bee: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.97, 谷月社

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• The vague torment of ... ambition.

  Emile Zola

  Ambition, Torment

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• A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.

  Ugo Betti

  Doctors, Police, Fronts

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy?

  Alfred de Vigny

  Giving, Judging, Feelings

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.12, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Theatre is a game of hide-and-seek. For both the hiders and the seekers, the thrill is in the discovery. When the rules of the game are too vague or too complicated, however, the audience can lose its urge to play; the prize no longer seems quite worth the hunt.

  John Lahr

  Discovery, Games, Play

  "The Human Circus" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. March 1, 2010.

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• When you start, it's very cold, an impossible task. But then maybe the characters start to take on a little bit of life, or the story takes a turn that you don't expect ... With me that happens a lot because I don't outline, I just have a vague notion. So it's always felt like less of a made thing and more of a found thing. That's exciting. That's a thrill.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Character, Tasks

  "Stephen King on the Creative Process, the State of Fiction, and More". Interview with James Parker, www.theatlantic.com. April 12, 2011.

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• What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in love with the nouvelle vague movement, and directors like Godard, Truffaut, Demy. 'The Dreamers' was a total homage to cinema and that love for it.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Dreamer, Directors, Cinema

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• I think every good song tells a story, as ambiguous and vague as it may be. And if you know what a song is talking about, it can only help your performance.

  David Cook

  Song, Thinking, Talking

  "'Idol' moments with winner David Cook". Interview with Misha Berson, www.seattletimes.com. July 8, 2008.

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• The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.

  Steven A. Cohen

  Information, Way, Trading

  "To Catch a Trader". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. January 7, 2014.

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• When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

  Lynn Abbey

  Ideas, Literature, Heartbeat

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• Elusive dreams and vague desires fanned to fiery needs by deadly deeds of falling empires.

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Fall, Reality

  Song: Fiction, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Science, Men, Order

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• There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague resemblance to the hillbilly gene pool that Elvis came from. People would say, 'You want to be Elvis' and I would say, 'No'.

  Chris Isaak

  Hair, Resemblance Is, People

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• I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Children, Hate

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• I'm the opposite of someone like David Grossman, who knows how his characters walk, and how they smell. I don't allow myself to imagine what mine look like at all. My sense of them comes from the inside. They remain, by necessity, physically vague in my mind.

  Nicole Krauss

  Character, Smell, Opposites

  "Nicole Krauss: 'I take great pleasure in thinking'". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.

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• I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world I see in relation to that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Spiritual, Mean

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.32, Macmillan

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• If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

  Jabari Asim

  Memories, Struggle, Character

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• In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: ‘If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?’ (Rom.8:31, 32).

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.

  Douglas Adams

  Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings, Sitting

  "The Meaning of Liff". Book by Douglas Adams, John Lloyd, 1983.

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• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

  Josephine Tey

  Thinking, Ideas, Annoyed

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• From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Memories, Air

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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• I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.

  Anais Nin

  Profound, Abstract, Delicate

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• Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.

  Charlton Laird

  Latin, Cohabitation, Jazz

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• I had some vague memory of visiting Canberra as a lad, when we came up with my father by car. But when I made the long train journey from Sydney to Canberra and arrived at the little stop, I did wonder slightly whether this really was the national capital.

  John Henry Carver

  Memories, Father, Journey

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