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• A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader.

  Garry Disher

  Way, Crime, Thrillers

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• Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your heart to see her; and it would mend what was broken in the same moment; and you would be twice what you’d been before.

  Clive Barker

  Beautiful, Heart, Broken

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• A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always act on their feelings, and think it only right. The will is then left at the mercy of circumstances that evoke feelings. Christian spiritual formation today must squarely confront this fact and overcome it.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Spiritual, Lying

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• It is clear that 'social Darwinism' and 'survival of the fittest' were intended by Obama to evoke feelings of fear and disgust. It is highly doubtful that Obama knows anything about the history of these ideas, and it is even more doubtful that he cares. A concern for truth is not the coin of the political realm.

  George H. Smith

  Ideas, Political, Feelings

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• We're here to learn how to worship consciousness and radiance, evoke it in each other, and tolerate nothing less than our deepest love.

  David Deida

  Radiance, Worship, Consciousness

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• What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

  David Platt

  What If, Band, Knees

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• We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.

  David Platt

  Giving, Looks, Demand

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• One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Greatest Gifts, Tenderness

  Dean Koontz (2011). “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie”, p.170, Bantam

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• If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.

  Robert Henri

  Expression, May, Painting

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.158, Basic Books

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• The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Past, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

  Laura Esquivel

  Past, Smell, Sound

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• I think that whenever soul is present, it's because what you're doing, whom you're with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Love, Marriage, Thinking

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• I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

  Edward Abbey

  Magic, Wonder, Mystical

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• For me, the strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke humanity. If war is an attempt to negate humanity, then photography can be perceived as the opposite of war.

  James Nachtwey

  Photography, War, Lying

  "War Photographer". Documentary, War, www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only those who've been to the bottom and clawed their way back up can generate. His midnight gifts evoke Hank Williams and Skip James as much as Tom Waits and Dylan. Not everybody will get this music - because not everybody is ready for the truth.

  Jerry Stahl

  Song, Dark, Waiting

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• Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Memories, Past, Feelings

  "Olga Kurylenko Talks OBLIVION, Flying the Bubbleship, How Her Bond Experience Helped Her with Action, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 13, 2013.

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• I often think of my work as visual haiku. It is an attempt to evoke and suggest through as few elements as possible rather than to describe with tremendous detail.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Thinking, Details

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• Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from the snapshot to the decisive moment to multi-media montage - the intent and purpose of photography is to render in visual terms feelings and experiences that often elude the ability of words to describe. In any case, the eyes have it, and the imagination will always soar farther than was expected.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Eye, Media

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• Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

  Joseph Campbell

  Character, Goes On, About Yourself

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

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