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• Believe me, it is a great deal better to find cast-iron proof that you're innocent than to languish in a cell hoping that the police---who already think you're guilty---will find it for you.

  Douglas Adams

  Believe, Thinking, Cells

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• End production today. Wrap party as usual a little sad. Slow danced with Scarlett. Broke her toe. Not my fault. When she dipped me back, I stepped on it. Penélope [Cruz] and Javier [Bardem] anxious to work with me again. Said if I ever come up with another screenplay to try and find them. Goodbye drink with Rebecca [Hall]. Sentimental moment. Everyone in cast and crew chipped in and bought me a ballpoint pen.

  Woody Allen

  Goodbye, Party, Trying

  "Scarlett: 'What's my motivation here?' Woody: 'Your salary'" by Woody Allen, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2009.

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• In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans in the media think it's absolutely fine to take a wild guess at the truth and then tell a couple of million people it's cast-iron fact, just in case they might be right...I hope they're proud of themselves, because they nearly broke my mom's heart.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Mom, Couple, Military

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• To cast aside from Poetry, all that is not Inspiration

  William Blake

  Inspiration

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.170, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Determination, Lying, Sanctuary

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• Faith precedes the miracle. It has ever been so and shall ever be. It was not raining when Noah was commanded to build an ark. There was no visible ram in the thicket when Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac. Two heavenly personages were not yet seen when Joseph knelt and prayed. First came the test of faith–and then the miracle. Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other. Cast out doubt. Cultivate faith.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Rain, Son, Sacrifice

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• Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fighting, Want, Pleasure

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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• If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

  Alexandre Dumas

  Fool, Monte Cristo, Ifs

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• The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Law, Liberty

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• If we go on to cast a look at the fate of these World-Historical persons, whose vocation it was to be the agents of the World-Spirit, we shall find it to have been no happy one. They attained no calm enjoyment; their whole life was labour and trouble; their whole nature was nought else but their master—passion. When their object is attained they fall off like empty hulls from the kernel. They die early, like Alexander; they are murdered, like Caesar.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Fall, Passion, Fate

  "Reading Hegel: The Introductions".

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• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Distance, Farewell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

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• We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to arise between Nothing and Something, in the morning the Nothing vase cast a Something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that, at night the Nothing light spilled from the guest room spilled under the Nothing door and stained the Something hallway, there's nothing to say.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Morning, Memories, Night

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The mere suggestion of fame and fortune casts a glamour all its own. It is rather alarming how quickly people will turn someone else's fiction into fact in order to support their own fictions of themselves.

  Libba Bray

  Order, People, Support

  Libba Bray (2009). “Rebel Angels”, p.235, Simon and Schuster

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• Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.

  Bertrand Russell

  Iron, Discipline, Creative

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.12, Psychology Press

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• Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives - but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can ensure that I will catch it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wise, Kings, Men

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called in sick. I could've avoided an army of demons, a fight with a Titan, and a trick that almost got my friends and me cast into eternal darkness. But no, I had to take my stupid English exam.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fighting, Army

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• I have one final hope, If I get double sixes, maybe he will change his mind, come back to me. As if to cast a magic spell, I blow on the dice just as Dex did...Just as it happened with our first roll, one die lands before its mate. On a six! I hold my breath. For a brief second, I see a mess of dots, and think I have boxcars again. I kneel, staring at the second die. It is onle a five. I have rolled an eleven, It is as if someone is mocking me, saying, Close, but no dice.

  Emily Giffin

  Blow, Thinking, Land

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• When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

  Jacqueline Carey

  Pity, Cruelty, Kushiel's Dart

  Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• a man there was, though some did count him mad, the more he cast away the more he had.

  John Bunyan

  Men, Mad, Charity

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

  Libba Bray

  Trying, Desperate, Not Sure

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.212, Delacorte Press

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• If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next.

  Haruki Murakami

  Flower, Butterfly, Writing

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• New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.

  Peter Cameron

  Summer, New York, Stars

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.

  John Keats

  Cheer, Passion, Moon

  'Endymion' (1818) bk. 1, l. 33

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• What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To Abu, it was a little poem. And in general, it was the poetics, the music of things that tossed his confetti.

  Tom Robbins

  Shadow, Doe, Littles

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• Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.

  Virginia Woolf

  Clouds, Sharks, Hands

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.58, Virginia Woolf

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