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• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Regret, Believe, Sadness

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes comes walking along. And he says to you, 'Hi, there, little lady. Want to tumble with me?' So you and the bear spend the whole day in each other's arms, tumbling down this clover-covered hill. Nice, huh?

  Haruki Murakami

  Sweet, Spring, Nice

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• For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.

  Anne Rice

  Memories, Kissing, Thinking

  Anne Rice (2000). “Merrick: a novel”, Knopf Canada

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• But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Sweet, Dark, Black

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• There is a love of wild nature in everybody, an ancient mother-love showing itself whether recognized or no, and however covered by cares and duties

  John Muir

  Mother, Nature, Adventure

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• I walked down my snow covered street. Out of habit I turned and checked for my footsteps. When I arrived at my building I looked for my name on the buzzers. And because I know that sometimes I see things that aren't there, after dinner I called Information to ask if I was listed.(25)

  Nicole Krauss

  Names, Snow, Buzzers

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Father, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But she woke up just then, and in the moonlight covered herself with a blanket. She smiled at him drowsily and called him "Yero, my hero," and that melted his heart.

  Gregory Maguire

  Hero, Heart, Moonlight

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.171, Harper Collins

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• The oversized chairs are white; the walls, covered with occasional landscape paintings, are white; and the plush carpet is the whitest of all. I'm insanely glad I didn't bring a cup of grape juice with me.

  Wendy Mass

  Wall, White, Landscape Painting

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• Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feet, Snow, House

  "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1938)

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• Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Happiness, Brother, Real

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

  Clive Barker

  Clouds, Rose, Sun

  Clive Barker (2001). “Cabal”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for their moms, and I wonder if, other than Jesus, has this ever happened before. Maybe it happens all the time. Maybe there's angry dead all over, hiding in rooms, covered with blankets, bossing around their scared, embarrassed relatives. Because how would we know?

  George Saunders

  Mom, Baby, Jesus

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• I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, Self Confidence, People

  "Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star, On ‘Labia Saturation,’ Oversharing And Her Tattoos". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Distance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Covered Up, Body

  Marilyn Monroe's handwritten note responding to a question about posing nude, as quoted in International Herald Tribune, October 5, 1984.

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• Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Sex, Color

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• if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Blood, Hands

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude. Yeah, those are the words.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Attitude, Gun, Blood

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Circus of the Damned: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.143, Penguin

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• Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very expressive and you appear a lot more authoritative if you keep them covered up. The advantage of this is that it makes a lot harder for cops to see anything more than six foot off the ground. Which is why painting rooftops and bridges is so easy.

  Banksy

  Eye, Covered Up, Security Guards

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by - or despite - its outcry.

  Philip K. Dick

  Cutting, Men, Echoes

  Philip K. Dick (2008). “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, p.130, Ballantine Books

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• I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said. And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.

  Emily Dickinson

  Night, Covered Up, Names

  "I died for beauty but was scarce" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wrinkles, Frowning, Too Much

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers, not on the litter." Though I lack the art to decipher it, no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Art, Book, Moon

  "The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (The Layers)". Book by Stanley Kunitz, 1978.

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• History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Writing, History, Pieces

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