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• Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

  Langston Hughes

  Fall, Love Is, People

  Langston Hughes (2011). “Selected Poems of Langston Hughes”, p.99, Vintage

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• The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Heart, Together, Would Be

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.49, Vintage

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• i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new.

  e. e. cummings

  Love, Eye, Kissing

  'Sonnets-Actualities' no. 8 (1925)

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• Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?" God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!" Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo.

  James Patterson

  Morning, Stars, Coffee

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• Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is not a scrap of difference. Arcades ambo. They are the same species of curculio, and there is nothing to choose between them.' But suppose you had to choose?' Then I should choose the right-hand weevil; it has a perceptible advantage in both length and breadth.' There I have you,' cried Jack. 'You are bit - you are completely dished. Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!

  Patrick O'Brian

  Hands, Two, Differences

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• Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Fall, Boards, Careless

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1934). “Wine from these grapes”

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• Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird That kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sea, Land, Bird

  c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).

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• Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dark, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• Julia's vocabulary was "chock-full" of strangely archaic words - "spiffing," "crumbs," "jeepers" - that seemed to have originated in some prewar girls' annual rather than in Julia's own life. For Jackson, words were functional, they helped you get to places and explain things. For Julia, they were freighted with inexplicable emotion.

  Kate Atkinson

  Girl, Vocabulary, Emotion

  Kate Atkinson (2010). “One Good Turn: (Jackson Brodie)”, p.135, Random House

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• I took a bite of cookie and chewed. “Hmmm,” I said, trying not to spit crumbs. “Clear vanilla notes, too-sweet chocolate chips, distinct flavor of brown sugar. A decent cookie, not spectacular. Still, a good-hearted cookie, not pretentious.” I turned to Fang. “What say you?” “It’s fine.” Some people just don’t have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

  James Patterson

  Sweet, People, Appreciate

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• You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.

  Susan Orlean

  Crazy, Smart, Thinking

  "Stay Out of My Dropbox" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2011.

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• Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Believe, Needs, Want

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• Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tragedy, Masters, Hades

  "The Birth of Tragedy". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche (p. 54), 1872.

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• Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.

  Richard Gere

  Kids, Animal, Night

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldamn, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey

  Memories, Leaving, Purpose

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• I never sold drugs. A lot of people used to think I was that dude but I never sold a crumb. I used to always be upset with that.

  Rakim

  Thinking, People, Drug

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Bread, Comedy, Figures

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• I'm one dude and when I make my bed I lay in it but don't stereotype me. Never sold a crumb to this day and I don't do nothing on the side.

  Rakim

  Bed, Sides, Stereotype

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

  Emily Dickinson

  Justice, Bird

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.110, First Avenue Editions

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• Most of [ the Negro leaders] who - who, whose existence or whose position of leadership depends upon the - on the subsidy or crumbs for - the crumbs from the white man's table, will only say what that white man wants to hear. When they get behind the door they talk a different language.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Doors, White Man

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• There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.

  Alberto Moravia

  Book, Heart, Vanity

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• In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that. Those policies are designed to turn state power into an instrument that works for the wealthy. Maybe there are some crumbs for the rest of the population, maybe not. But that's given.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Population, Structure

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

  Woody Allen

  Results, Humans, Human Will

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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• Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.

  Catherine Marshall

  Christian, Disappointment, Father

  Catherine Marshall (1995). “Catherine Marshall: Inspiration Writings”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• Little I ask
  And that little is not granted."
  There are few crumbs
  In this world any more.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  World, Charity, Littles

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