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• The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

  James Thurber

  Humor, People, Laughing

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

  Richard Powers

  Dream, Lying, Writing

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• Your impulses are your closest communication with your inner self, because in the waking state they are the spontaneous urgings toward action, rising from that deep inner knowledge of yourself that you have in dreams.

  Seth

  Dream, Communication, Self

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• Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Definitions, Pity

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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• I was wanting to do an album but I didn't know if I was really ready. Jerry Wexler was one of my closest friends and allies, like my godfather. He said, "Let's do an album." I couldn't sing worth a damn, but there were some good songs.

  Donnie Fritts

  Song, Allies, Albums

  "The Soulful DNA of Country Songwriter Donnie Fritts". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. October 08, 2015.

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• Your body can be very female, which is something you can do nothing about, but then you can have the soul, the mind and the spirit of both male and female. The women friends I am closest to somehow have this masculine side to them, they shove their hands in their pockets when they walk: I love that side.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hands, Soul, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I find myself doing fieldwork physically, in the tradition of anthropology. I literally go to the opposite end of the world, to the most exotic faraway places I possibly can, only to find the closest things to me when I get there.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Opposites, Exotic, World

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Roots, Hatred, Interest

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• In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

  David Halberstam

  Sports, Morning, Motivation

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• The words you can't find, you borrow.
  We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
  My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart.
  We are not quite novels.
  The analogy he is looking for is almost there.
  We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that.
  In the end, we are collected works.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Book, Heart, Stories

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• Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Done, Doing Nothing

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.

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• Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Biblical, Views, Rivers

  Alister E. McGrath (2007). “Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution : a History from the Sixteenth Century to the Twenty-first”, SPCK Publishing

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• Lies from the closest to you are often the most numerous and paralyzing.

  Anne Mallory

  Lying

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• Beyond the Thunder is the closest I've recorded to an acoustic thing.

  Neal Schon

  Acoustics, Thunder

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• I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example.

  Stanley Schmidt

  Thinking, Other Cultures, People

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• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  Jack Lemmon

  Best Friend, Brother, Lost Ones

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• That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.

  Ben Harper

  Spiritual, Guitar, Being Free

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• Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

  Thornton Wilder

  Giving, Awkward, Style

  Interview in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, First Series", edited by Malcolm Cowley, 1958.

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• This thing I am feeling, I’m almost certain, is the closest I’ll ever come to standing somewhere in between truth and reconciliation.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Feelings, Certain, Standing

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the US to Europe’s wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the barbecue changes.

  John Shelton Reed

  Wine, Europe, Southern

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• Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth.

  Lee Labrada

  Bodybuilding, Youth, Fountain

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• In a creative journey, it is essential, no matter how far one runs, to examine that which is closest to home.

  Dani Shapiro

  Running, Home, Journey

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• I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

  John Grant

  Perfection, Dames, Campus

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• Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

  Mike Dirnt

  Music, Magic

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• An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either.

  Eamon de Valera

  Real, Independent, Islands

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