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• Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Distance, Doe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.147, Graphic Arts Books

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• This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.

  John Steinbeck

  Religious, Philosophy, School

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.119, Hamilton Books

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• We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to get to do the work, although, there has been in these days, some interest in this kind of thing.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Funny, Work, Writing

  "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Richard P. Feynman's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1965.

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• A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Moving, Tyrants, World Government

  Speaking to the Roman Senate, as recorded by Sallust in The Catiline War (c. 40 b.c.). This quotation is a favorite of CIA counterintelligence officers.

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• We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

  Booker T. Washington

  Communication, Vocabulary, Pockets

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• Shakespeare, he's in the alley with his pointed shoes and his bells, speaking to some French girl who says she knows me well.

  Bob Dylan

  Girl, Shoes, Bells

  Song: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again, Album: Blonde On Blonde, 1966

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• To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

  Jessica Simpson

  Artist, Mentor

  Jessica Simpson Gets the "Star Treatment in a Special Issue of WWD" by Allie Merriam, www.popsugar.com. March 28, 2011.

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• I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Blind, Procreation

  evelyn waugh (1929). “decline and fall”

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• In the end, that's a blind alley - we have to get back to being able to think on our feet and react.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, Feet, Able

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• You know, the bowling alley doesn‘t seem to be improving my game. That‘s the one thing I have noticed.

  Barack Obama

  Games, Bowling, Improving

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 3, 2009.

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• You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.

  Henry Miller

  Sublime, Dear Life, Ends

  "Black Spring".

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• Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.

  Steven Tyler

  Hot, Today, Bowling

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• Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity.

  John Dos Passos

  Opportunity, Land, Land Of Opportunity

  John Dos Passos (2013). “The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy”, p.107, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

  Victor Hugo

  Death, Morning, Next

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• Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  Real, Dark, Imagination

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “The Egypt Game”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Artist, Fire

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• Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.

  Cassandra Clare

  New York, Cat, World

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• There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

  Branford Marsalis

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Records

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• The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

  Peter Ustinov

  Frustration, Back Alleys, Social

  Nicholas Fraser, Kate Caffrey, Peter Ustinov, Carl Sagan, Eric Sevareid (1978). “Aristotle Onassis”

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• These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Years, Spinning Plates

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• Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated.

  Tom Chapin

  Song, Tin Pan Alley, Bob

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• The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Smile, Beautiful, Doe

  "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" (1892)

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• It means working harder to do the research but I don't really mind - I don't think I have what it takes to chase criminals through back alleys and wade through blood at crime scenes.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Mean, Thinking, Back Alleys

  GownUps interview, www.grownups.co.nz.

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• The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

  Pete du Pont

  Country, Party, Struggle

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  Florence King

  Mind, Literature, World

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