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• Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is more than the sum of those parts, which could not exist in any other form, and which cannot be caught, or held, or contained.

  Douglas Portway

  Art, Taken, Quality

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• I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Thinking, Flames, Denial

  "Future tense". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught in the nonexistent interval between the nonexistent past and the nonexistent future.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Past, Pace, Behinds

  "Galileo's Dream". Book by Kim Stanley Robinson, 2009.

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• While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.

  Rebecca Mead

  Fashion, Ideas, Clothes

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• Are you and I perchance caught up in a dream from which we have not yet awakened?

  Zhuangzi

  Dream, Insight, Awakened

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• We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Objectivity, Jam, Traffic

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• Be good or don't get caught.

  Traci Lords

  Be Good

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• Never allow yourself to get caught without a loose million handy.

  Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

  Money, Handy, Millions

  "Rhodes, The Race for Africa". Book by Antony Thomas, 1996.

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• If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.

  Emma Watson

  Running, Opportunity, People

  "Emma Watson, The December 2014 ELLE Cover Interview" by Lorraine Candy, www.elle.com. June 03, 2015.

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• It is not only the proclamation of the whole truth that is needed today; it is the release of the spiritual reality which the truth expresses, and that can only be realized as we allow ourselves to be caught into the mighty on-flowing tide of the Spirit.

  Watchman Nee

  Spiritual, Reality, Today

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• When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

  John Muir

  Wine, Sight, Blood

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.208, The Mountaineers Books

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• At the White House, they caught another fence jumper earlier today. It was Obama trying to get out.

  David Letterman

  White, House, Trying

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• The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Compassion, Fire

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• I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Passion, Sleep, Ideas

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• On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'

  Catfish Hunter

  Home, Yankees, Two

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• I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.

  Ed Zern

  Believe, Sea, Fishing

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• Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Strong, Kids, Years

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• From high Meonia's rocky shores I came, Of poor decsent, Acoetes is my name, My sire was measly born: no oxen ploughed, His fruitful fields, nor in his pastures lowed, His whole estate within the waters lay' With lines and hooks he caught the finny prey; His art was all his livelehood, which he Thus with his dying lips bequeathed to me: In streams, my boy, and rivers take thy chance; There swims', said he, Thy whole inheritance.

  Ovid

  Art, Boys, Sea

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• My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Lakes, Sea

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10

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• I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

  Eugene Field

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Eugene Field, “Our Biggest Fish”

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• Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.

  Tony Bishop

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as if I were entering a department store. I caught three trout in the lost and found department.

  Richard Brautigan

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fisherman will snatch it out in his own good time.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

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• The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are not brethren, they are not underlings, they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the Earth.

  Henry Beston

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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