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• He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.

  Cassandra Clare

  Hair, Blue, Octopus

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• I loathe the expression “What makes him tick.” It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

  James Thurber

  Fall, Simple, Expression

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• Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sex, Animal, Men

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• I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

  Edith Sitwell

  Women, Eels, People

  Attributed to Edith Sitwell in Life Magazine, January 4, 1963.

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• The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

  Steve Vai

  Guitar, Play, Acoustics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

  Steven Wright

  Silence, Stuff, Silent

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• There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and preparation, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one electric, pulse-revving vision when the universe suddenly declares itself.

  Diane Ackerman

  Long, Waiting, Preparation

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Moon By Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats,Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales”, p.33, Vintage

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• The Music was like Electric Sugar

  Tom Waits

  Sugar

  Song: Live Circus, Album: Real Gone, 2004

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• With the arrival of electric technology, man extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate and suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicidal, Technology, Men

  "Understanding media: the extensions of man".

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• Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.

  Dave Eggers

  Morning, Sky, White

  Dave Eggers (2007). “What Is the What”, p.532, Vintage

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• If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Wall, Writing

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it.

  John Steinbeck

  Morning, Pain, Believe

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.286, Penguin

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• Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.

  Haruki Murakami

  Strong, Two, Drawing

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.223, Random House

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• How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Witty

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• What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.

  Tom Robbins

  Jesus, World, Bathtubs

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Another Roadside Attraction”, p.250, Bantam

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• And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built

  Charles Bukowski

  Moving, Tired, Night

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• High on a rocky promontory sat an Electric Monk on a bored horse.

  Douglas Adams

  Horse, Bored, Monk

  Douglas Adams (1991). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

  Steven Wright

  Fun, Interesting, Alive

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• What is important is the moment of opening a life and feeling it touch--with an electric hiss and cry--this speckled mineral sphere, our present world.

  Annie Dillard

  Feelings, Important, World

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.230, Canongate Books

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• So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Cat, Fur, Batteries

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• Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

  Wendell Berry

  Air, Battle, Wire

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• I'll tell you who doesn't have any personal responsibility. Companies like General Electric and others who pay absolutely no income tax.

  Michael Moore

  Responsibility, Income, Pay

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• I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

  David Lynch

  Guitar, Doe, Working It

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• Electric cars are coal-powered cars. Their carbon emissions can be worse than gasoline-powered cars.

  Vinod Khosla

  Carbon Emissions, Coal, Gasoline

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• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Guitar, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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