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• I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

  Harvey Pekar

  Kids, Stories, Stuff

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• I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

  Harvey Pekar

  Artist, Mad, Cleveland

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?

  Nasreddin

  House, Neighbor, Found

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• Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

  Joseph Conrad

  Simple, Doors, Ideas

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.39, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

  Wallace Stevens

  Civilization, Saint, Complaints

  Wallace Stevens (1964). “the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”

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• We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

  Gary Kovacs

  Leaving, Digital, Woods

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• Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

  Stefano Benni

  Cutting, Destiny, Cake

  Stefano Benni, Antony Shugaar (2006). “Margherita Dolce Vita”, Europa Editions Incorporated

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• It's in our nature to be intrigued. We're putting the bread crumb not in your mouth but close to your mouth. You reach a little bit, and that's why it works.

  Bryan Cranston

  Mouths, Littles, Bread

  "Why the Dad from Malcolm in the Middle Knows So Much About Meth". Interview with Matthew Belloni, www.esquire.com. Mzrch 4, 2009.

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• I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

  Eve Ensler

  Giving, Silence, Charity

  Eve Ensler (2013). “In the Body of the World: A Memoir of Cancer and Connection”, p.215, Macmillan

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• No sooner had the warm liquid mixed with the crumbs touched my palate than a shudder ran through me and I stopped, intent upon the extraordinary thing that was happening to me.

  Marcel Proust

  Liquid, Palate, Extraordinary Things

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Swann's Way”, p.48, Vintage

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• At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that creates this terrifying erotic chaos. Information, a crumb of information, seems to light the world.

  John Cheever

  Ignorance, Light, Two

  "The Journals of John Cheever" by Robert Gottlieb, 1966.

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• There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim light bulb in the skies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  Paulo Coelho (2014). “Adultery: A novel”, p.87, Vintage

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• Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)

  Mary Oliver

  Joy, Made

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• So you have you price," I said with a mouthful of crumbs. "Your soul for a cookie." Fang made sure Dr. Martinez wasn't looking and then shot me the bird.

  James Patterson

  Bird, Soul, Drs

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• Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Glasses, Meals, Aftermath

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2004). “The Namesake: A Novel”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Light, Hands, Safety

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• He won’t last long, akri. Thanatos is barbecue. And I like my barbecue. Just tell me how you want him, akri, normal recipe or extra crispy. I’m partial to extra crispy myself. They crunch louder when deep-fried. Reminds me, I need some bread crumbs. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Long, Needs, Recipes

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• I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page of fresh snow.

  Billy Collins

  Reading, Light, Circles

  Billy Collins (1988). “The Apple that Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.32, University of Arkansas Press

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• The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection of conservatism. They claim to present an alternate social model, when they are little more than the courtiers of the corporatist movement. Their agitation is filled with the bitterness and cynicism typical of courtiers who scramble for crumbs at the banquet tables of real power, but are always denied a proper chair.

  John Ralston Saul

  Real, Rejection, Bitterness

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• So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Coffee, Muffins, Cranberries

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.297, Penguin

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• People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you’re nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Knives, People, Goes On

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• I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Wine, Years

  Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

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• The last time I saw her was red. The sky was like soup, boiling and stirring. In some places, it was burned. There were black crumbs, and pepper, streaked across the redness.

  Markus Zusak

  Sky, Black, Soup

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.24, RH Childrens Books

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• I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.

  Zoë Heller

  Crush, Children, Events

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• I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

  Henry Miller

  Dirt, Villa, All Alone

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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