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• I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

  Thomas Howes

  Drama, Fall, School

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• Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.

  George Berkeley

  God, Stars, Fall

  George Berkeley (2015). “Principles of Human Knowledge: Human Understanding”, p.134, 谷月社

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• We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down.

  Bruce Willis

  Fall, Iron, Long

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• If you want to please me very much, you will fall down when I shoot you," -Oates The White Darkness

  Geraldine McCaughrean

  Fall, Please Me, White

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• ..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Believe, Fall

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.21, 谷月社

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• I was born in platform heels. I actually always fall down when I'm wearing flip-flops.

  Eva Longoria

  Fall, Flip, Born

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• Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Feelings, Noise

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• I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on top of her head- she lets her eyes look at my eyes- then she drops her hair and lets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold her speechlessly from the back my arm around her neck I touch her wrists and hands feel up to her elbows no further.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fall, Eye, Mirrors

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.304, Canongate Books

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• Go and see whether the Doctor is about,’ said Jack, ‘and if he is, ask him to look in, when he has a moment.’ Which he is in the fish-market, turning over some old-fashioned lobsters. No. I tell a lie. That is him, falling down the companion-way and cursing in foreign.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Lying, Fall, Doctors

  Patrick O'Brian (2000). “Blue at the Mizzen (Vol. Book 20) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

  Harold MacMillan

  Kings, Fall, Divine Right

  1950 Speech, Strasbourg,16 Aug.

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• I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Girl, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women with eyes like bullet holes and mouths made of knives. They are always restless. They are always hungry. They are bad news. They will drink you down like a shot of whisky. Falling in love with them is like falling down a flight of stairs. What no one told me, with all those warnings, is that even after you’ve fallen, even after you know how painful it is, you’d still get in line to do it again.

  Holly Black

  Love, Girl, Fall

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.

  Wendy Mass

  Fall, Flew Up, Bags

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• I'm mortal. You really don't want me falling down stairs and breaking my neck." "I'd catch you," he assured her solemnly. "I'll always be there to catch you, Inez.

  Lynsay Sands

  Fall, Want, Necks

  Lynsay Sands (2012). “Vampires are Forever: An Argeneau Vampire Novel”, p.155, Hachette UK

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• I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Running, Fall

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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• I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house―condemned―for months I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repair. But that was all―just the one small piece. He deserved better than that―better than a one-room, falling-down fixer-upper. No amount of investment on his part could put me back in working order.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fall, Order, House

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Love You, Farewell

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• Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Fall, Rocks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Lonely, Rain, Fall

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• He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

  Aleister Crowley

  Dog, Fall, Pits

  Aleister Crowley (2016). “The Book of the Law”, p.10, Public Lex

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• It was a real whale, a photograph of a real whale. I looked into its tiny wise eye and wondered where that eye was now. Was it alive and swimming, or had it died long ago, or was it dying now, right this second? When a whale dies, it falls down through the ocean slowly, over the course of a day. All the other fish see it fall, like a giant statue, like a building, but slowly, slowly.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Real, Ocean

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Doors, Feet

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Waves”, p.30, Virginia Woolf

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• If someone falls down, pick them back up. Just because there's not a frickin camera in your face doesn't mean you don't have to look out for each other.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Fall, Mean, Cameras

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• Arya, What are you doing?" "Syrio says a water dancer can stand on one toe for hours." Her hands flailed at the air to steady herself. Ned had to smile. "Which toe?" he teased. "ANY toe," Arya said, exasperated with the question. She hopped from her right leg to her left, swaying dangerously before she regained her balance. "Must you do your standing here?" he asked. "It's a long hard fall down these steps." "Syrio says a water dancer NEVER falls.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Air, Hands

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