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• There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Numbers, Long

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• I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pain - has an Element of Blank It cannot recollect When it begun - or if there were a time when it was not - It has no Future - but itself - Its Infinite contain Its Past - enlightened to perceive New Periods - of Pain.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Past, Elements

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.719, Harvard University Press

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• When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

  Peter Høeg

  Talking, Long, Mind

  Peter Høeg (2013). “Borderliners: A Novel”, p.35, Macmillan

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• Most people are blind to magic. They move thru a blank and empty world. They’re bored with their lives and there’s nothing they can do about it. They’re eaten alive by longing and they’re dead before they die.

  Lev Grossman

  Moving, People, Bored

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Disappointment, Self, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Seriously, Shane? Ditto? That's the best you can do?" Shane and Michael exchanged identical looks and shrugs. Guys. "Let me show you idiots how it's done," Eve said, and hugged Claire fiercely. She kissed her on the cheek. "I love you, CB. Please take care of yourself, okay?" "I love you, too," Claire said, and suddenly her throat felt tight and her eyes burned with tears. "I really do." Shane and Michael watched them with identical expressions of blank bemusement, and finally Shane said, "So basically, it's what I said. Ditto.

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Eye, Expression

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• We rarely get to prepare ourselves in meadows or on graveled walks; we do it on short notice in places without windows, hospital corridors, rooms like this lounge with its cracked plastic sofa and Cinzano ashtrays, where the cafe curtains cover blank concrete. In rooms like this, with so little time, we prepare our gestures, get them by heart so we can do them when we're frightened in the face of Doom.

  Thomas Harris

  Heart, Short Notice, Cafes

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.159, Macmillan

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• For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reading, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

  John Marsden

  Hands, Paper, Lines

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father's sake. But to be honest, I'm not the forgiving type.

  Suzanne Collins

  Children, Father, Home

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.10, Scholastic Inc.

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• I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Book, Want

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• Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Rain, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 7

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• I don't like people who speak or think in terms of gaining anybody's confidence. If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception. The person who craves a moral blank check of that kind, has dishonest intentions, whether he admits it to himself or not.

  Ayn Rand

  Thinking, People, Perception

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.157, Penguin

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• The fork was invented sometime in the fifteenth century, I believe.” “Really?” she asked. “Were you there?” His features blank, he looked up and asked, “What, for the invention of the fork or the fifteenth century?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Invention, Century

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.39, Macmillan

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• My room is cleared. My head is cleared. Earlier, around dawn, I took out the last load of trash. I look around and see what's left. Nothing. There is no more Daelyn Rice. As I was. As I am. Or will become. I'm a blank slate

  Julie Anne Peters

  Dawn, Looks, Lasts

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• He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Broken, Feelings, Giants

  Flannery O'Connor (2007). “Wise Blood: A Novel”, p.70, Macmillan

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• The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, People, Demand

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.155, Modern Library

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• It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.

  Truman Capote

  Writing, Clouds, Pieces

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1986). “Conversations with Capote”, Plume

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• He looked blank. “He’s the one who’s been doing the magic against us?” “Duh,” I said. “Doona be ‘duh’ing me, lass,” he growled, his burr thickening.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Magic, Duh, Said

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.573, Dell

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• In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Fear, Sleep, Simple

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• We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Motivation

  "'Misión de la Universidad' ('Mission of the University')". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, translated by Howard Lee Nostrand, p. 73, 1946.

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• A poem should improve on the blank page.

  Nicanor Parra

  Pages, Should, Blank Pages

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• What is it with McDonald's staff who pretend they don't understand you unless you insert the 'Mc' before the item you're ordering? It has to be a McChicken burger...a chicken burger gets blank looks. Well, I'll have a McStraw and jam it into your McEyes, you f**cking McTosser!

  Billy Connolly

  Mcdonalds, Looks, Burgers

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• There is no beginning that is a blank page.

  Amitava Kumar

  Pages, Blank Pages

  Amitava Kumar (2013). “Bombay--London--New York”, p.17, Routledge

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