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• 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Kings, Swings

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• The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

  Regina Brett

  Phones, Ideas, People

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• There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the inner circle, latent jealousies between advisers spill into open conflict, as they angrily debate who is to blame for the calamity, chewing over each other's past errors and pointing the finger at old and nascent enemies.

  Hanna Rosin

  Kings, Past, Errors

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• In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories, Afterlife, Sorrow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.710, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

  Richard Matheson

  Forever, Entering, Full Circle

  Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett

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• God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

  Voltaire

  God, Spiritual, Religion

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.147, Penguin

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• The car shot forward straight into the circle of light, and suddenly Arthur had a fairly clear idea of what infinity looked like. It wasn’t infinity in fact. Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber into which the aircar emerged was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself.

  Douglas Adams

  Distance, Night, Sky

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Faith, Fall

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• if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

  Toni Morrison

  Iron, Necks, Bites

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• All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the quintessence out of all the joys and sorrows.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Country, Eye, Sea

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• Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Real, Stupid

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• What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stars, Magic, Meals

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Lords And Ladies: (Discworld Novel 14)”, p.141, Random House

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• On the wall next to the table, next to the scones that provided each table with its own circle of lamplight were quotations about reading, her favorite of which was from Kafka: 'A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Haven Kimmel

  Wall, Book, Reading

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.127, Anchor

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• Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

  Galileo Galilei

  Philosophy, Book, Mean

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• To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Wise, Time

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• When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Lying, Gossip, Deceit

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• I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Fate, Destiny, Long Ago

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.294, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Other Worlds, Heaven, Way

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mother

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.32, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don't see it as a handing down of answers.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Teaching, People

  Alice Walker (1987). “Meridian: a novel”, Isis Large Print Books

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• If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.

  Sarah Vowell

  Eye, Dark, Mirrors

  Sarah Vowell (2013). “Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

  Alan Lightman

  Bending, World, Repeats

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.10, Vintage

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• It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Ideas, Squares, People

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• She stepped out from among their shifting confusion of lovely lights and shadows. A circle of grass, smooth as a lawn, met her eyes, with dark trees dancing all around it. And then --Oh Joy! For he was there: the huge Lion, shining white in the moonlight, with his huge black shadow underneath him.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dark, Light

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• We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Numbers

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