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• She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies, as blind puppies, as sun-starved newly hatched baby snakes. She left us a dark Gulf and salt-burned land. She left us to learn to crawl. She left us to salvage. Katrina is the mother we will remember until the next mother with large, merciless hands, committed to blood, comes.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Mother, Baby, Cutting

  Jesmyn Ward (2012). “Salvage the Bones”, p.262, A&C Black

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• Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

  Tacitus

  Christian, Sports, Dog

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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• Late have I loved Thee, O Lord; and behold, Thou wast within and I without, and there I sought Thee. Thou was with me when I was not with Thee. Thou didst call, and cry, and burst my deafness. Thou didst gleam, and glow, and dispell my blindness. Thou didst touch me, and I burned for Thy peace. For Thyself Thou hast made us, and restless our hearts until in Thee they find their ease. Late have I loved Thee, Thou Beauty ever old and ever new. Thou hast burst my bonds asunder; unto Thee will I offer up an offering of praise.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Likes, Painting

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• For every time she shouted "Fire!" They only answered "Little liar!" And therefore when her aunt returned, Matilda, and the house, were burned.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Time, Liars, Aunt

  Hilaire Belloc (1957). “Cautionary Tales for Children”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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• My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

  Nuala O'Faolain

  Records, Creation, Accepting

  Nuala O'Faolain (1998). “Are You Somebody: The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman”

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• Love is like sunshine.  Sometimes you have to get burned to know you were there.  I want to know that I'm here.

  Andrea Gibson

  Sunshine, Love Is, Want

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• We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

  Michael Scheuer

  Rome, Done, Nero

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

  David O. Russell

  Reality, Years, Culture

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I've been burned a few times by people I've once considered good friends. When I call someone my "friend," I open up and share my entire life with them. That always makes me feel a little vulnerable, but I just love the idea of people mutually opening up to each other and sharing wisdom and life experiences together.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Good Friend, Ideas, Opening Up

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• Don't tell me I have latent sexism or racism that I need to confront. I don't believe that. I think we are so burned by the current situation that we want somebody that it isn't possible to have. We want someone who definitely looks like the messiah.

  Sara Paretsky

  Believe, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

  Chris Abani

  Shadow, Encounters, Ordinary

  RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.

  Ted Rall

  Usa, Iraq, Laughing

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• I don't think I've ever tried on a corset, though a certain bridesmaid's dress did require a torturous bustier that will stay forever burned in my sensory memory.

  Laura Moriarty

  Memories, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• One of the scandalous things I did was as I read them afterward I would burn them. I loved them, but for practical reasons I had to lighten the load. I burned favorites, like William Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying." There's a whole list in the back of my book. It's me,[Adolf] Hitler, [Benito] Mussolini, and Pol Pot. We're the book burners.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Book, Dying, Lists

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.

  Beck

  Memories, Mind, Aces

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake.

  John R. Rice

  Christian, World, Stakes

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• For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Poetry, Pardon, Publish

  Alexander Pope (1961). “The Poems”

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• What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited on the other side of the horizon, where the stars burned undimmed in the velvet sky above his head and the virgin ground lay untrodden beneath his feet?

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Stars, Adventure

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I had been in Africa for six weeks on a safari with my family. I said, "You know, I made a lot of money. I am getting kind of burned out. I really want to do something special." So I went on this extended trip to Egypt, Kenya, Sardinia - I really did it, man. I was coming home, and while I was gone, they changed the speed limit from 65 to 55.

  Sammy Hagar

  Home, Men, Egypt

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2011.

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• I was one of those people raised by a woman who was what I call a prisoner of war. She was captured, she didn't want to be there, she was unhappy, she was banging away in the kitchen, the way that a prisoner would bang on her jail cell, you know, really unhappy. She had to cook for nine people with really little money, so she really just got burned out. So I didn't know that you could actually cook and it would be calming, pleasurable.

  Sandra Cisneros

  War, Cells, Jail

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

  Marianne Williamson

  Karma, Mean, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011

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• Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the same well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Laughter, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Fire, Gone, Realist

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