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• How come when you mix water and flour together you get glue...and then you add eggs and sugar and you get cake? Where does the glue go?

  Rita Rudner

  Food, Cake, Eggs

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• The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp (2010). “Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company”, p.56, U of Minnesota Press

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• Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

  Malcolm Lowry

  Tragedy, Guilt, Earth

  "Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place: Stories".

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• [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery.

  Isaac Asimov

  Light, Discovery, Illumination

  Isaac Asimov (1992). “Atom: Journey Across the Subatomic Cosmos”, Plume Books

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• Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Struggle, Civilization

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• In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.

  John Irving

  Loss, Childhood, Events

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster

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• If you are worried about the people outside, the most unreasonable thing you can do is remain outside yourself. Christians are Christ's body...every addition to that body enables Him to do more. If you want to help those outside you must add your own little cell to the body of Christ who along can help them. Cutting off a man's fingers would be a odd way of getting him to do more work.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Cutting, Men

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• There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.

  Alice Hoffman

  Falling In Love, Garden, Rose

  Alice Hoffman (1996). “Practical magic”, Berkley

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• I must add... my gratitude to you for the attention with which you have listened to me, for, from my numerous observations, our Liberals are never capable of letting anyone else have a conviction of his own without at once meeting their opponent with abuse or even something worse.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gratitude, Abuse, Attention

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• Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Black Cauldron: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.24, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

  Daniel Handler

  Humor, Enemy, Lists

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• All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Opportunity, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.12, Vintage

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• ...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Sound, Essentials

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.60, Anchor

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• ..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk to you.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Lying, Intimate Moments, Silence

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• A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Kissing, Eggs, Evil

  Jean-Paul Sartre (1966). “Words”

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• The way of peace is a soul journey. . . . If you can live from the level of your soul, you are doing something very special. The important thing is how much consciousness you add to the whole of human existence, for that is how eternity expresses itself, like a lamp shining through the window of eternity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Journey, Shining

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• I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it inappropriate for even an exceptionally profitable company to fund an operation once it appears to have unending losses in prospect. Adam Smith would disagree with my first proposition and Karl Marx would disagree with my second; the middle ground is the only position that leaves me comfortable.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Loss, Firsts

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• Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Motivational, Adversity, Enthusiasm For Life

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

  Jack Kerouac

  Jealous, Want, Eternity

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.80, Penguin

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• Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Philosophy, Science

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.55, Knopf

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• A man who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep, Frederic Goudy liked to say. If this wisdom needs updating, it is chiefly to add that a woman who would letterspace lower case would steal sheep as well .

  Robert Bringhurst

  Men, Sheep, Needs

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• You saw my leg?" "How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

  Shannon Hale

  Men, Legs, Saws

  Shannon Hale (2010). “The Goose Girl”, p.191, A&C Black

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• Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, 'Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not?' But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

  Penn Jillette

  Art, Hero, Technology

  Interview with Joshua Quittner, www.wired.com. September 01, 1994.

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• I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

  Sara Gruen

  Elephants, Water, Looks

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• Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Light, Evil, Darkness

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.61, Open Road Media

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