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• John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.

  Edward Abbey

  Passion, Beer, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.

  Zadie Smith

  Jesus, Children, Wall

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.87, Vintage

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• The winds that never moderation knew,
  Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew;
  Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge
  Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.

  John Dryden

  Blow, Wind, Joy

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1847). “The Works of John Dryden in Verse and Prose”, p.7

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• All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.

  William James

  Health, Love Is, Wings

  William James (1911). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature; Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902”

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• The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.

  Pindar

  Mother, Men, Differences

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• Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

  Sappho

  Immortal, Command

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.116, Univ of California Press

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• Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.

  Plutarch

  Might, Wells

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.27

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• The best way to deal with jealousy is to just recognize it first if it comes up, breath with it and let it go, because you can never compare yourself to somebody else, because you are so different any unique,everybody is so different and unique, so focus on what your positive qualities are, and try and expand and grow on that so then u can be a better version of yourself.

  Miranda Kerr

  Unique, Focus, Let It Go

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• I am grateful for who I am and who I am not. I am grateful for the life I have been given and for all that I have and all that I don't. Every breath I take is a blessing and an opportunity to fully experience the sheer joy of being alive.

  Miranda Kerr

  Grateful, Blessing, Opportunity

  Miranda Kerr (2010). “Treasure Yourself”, p.174, Hay House, Inc

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• There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.

  Margaret Fuller

  Book, Noble, Want

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.79, Cornell University Press

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• After all, when a thought takes one's breath away, a lesson on grammar seems an impertinence.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Humor, Lessons, Grammar

  Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1902). “Poems”

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• I can hear the sizzle of newborn stars, and know anything of meaning, of the fierce magic emerging here. I am witness to flexible eternity, the evolving past, and I know we will live forever, as dust or breath in the face of stars, in the shifting pattern of winds.

  Joy Harjo

  Stars, Past, Dust

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• I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

  Clarence Thomas

  Writing, Fighting, Thinking

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• A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

  Francis Marion

  Night, Hair, Wind

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• Failure is not a one-time event; it's how you deal with life along the way. Until you breathe your last breath, you're still in the process, and there is still time to turn things around for the better.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Failure, Way

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• The poem is neither here nor there, and with a girl's breast
  it can illuminate the nights.
  With the glow of an apple it fills two bodies with light
  and with a gardenia's breath it can revive a homeland!

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Girl, Night, Light

  Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• This is how it works
  You're young until you're not
  You love until you don't
  You try until you can't
  You laugh until you cry
  You cry until you laugh
  And everyone must breathe
  Until their dying breath.

  Regina Spektor

  Laughing, Dying, Trying

  Song: On the Radio, Album: Begin to Hope, 2006

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• The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

  David Levithan

  Perfect, Different, Feels

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• She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled before I could stop myself.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Mouths, Huffing, Lips

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.221, Scholastic Inc.

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• I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

  Ayrton Senna

  Sports, Racing, World

  TV Interview on "Roda Viva", TV Cultura Channel, 1986.

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• As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes - how do you recover from that? It's not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.

  David Blaine

  Kids, People, Miracle

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

  David Blaine

  Pain, Simple, Thinking

  "How I held my breath for 17 minutes". TED Talk, www.ted.com. October 2009.

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• Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.

  David Eddings

  Adventure, Blood, Race

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Art, Winter

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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• There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.134

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