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These Indians are fierce, they wear feathers and grunt. Most of us dont fit this idealized figure since we grunt only when overeating

Vine Deloria Jr.

Fierce, Fit, Figures

Vine Deloria,Jr. (1971). “Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto”

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There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

Denise Levertov

Girl, Song, Moon

Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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After an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of the mountain as money and cut the trees that were here and the wind and the rain at night. It is hard to say it.

W. S. Merwin

Rain, Cutting, Night

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The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out.

Anais Nin

Fall, Clouds, Bridges

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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

Margaret Atwood

Fall, Home, Air

Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.

Virginia Woolf

Book, Healing, Hands

Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.311, OUP Oxford

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My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.

Michael Steele

Wise, Boys, Views

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I don't know what to do!" cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath; and making a perfect Laocoön of himself with his stockings. "I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!

Charles Dickens

New Year, School, Angel

Charles Dickens (2013). “Dickens' Christmas Spirits: A Christmas Carol and Other Tales”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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I don't need to have three feather pillows in my trailer. I just don't work that way.

Dominic Monaghan

Three, Needs, Way

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She brought me a crow's feather...," he whispered.

Erin Hunter

Crow

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You took a walk on a Sunday afternoon and came to a nice neighborhood, very refined. You saw a small one of these trees through the iron gate leading to someone's yard and you knew that soon that section of Brooklyn would get to be a tenement district. The tree knew. It came there first. Afterwards, poor foreigners seeped in and the quiet old brownstone houses were hacked up into flats, feather beds were pushed out on the window sills to air and the Tree of Heaven flourished. That was the kind of tree it was. It liked poor people.

Betty Smith

Nice, Sunday, Air

Betty Smith (2009). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”, p.6, Harper Collins

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Why am I covered in feathers

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight, Breaking Dawn, Bella Swan

Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.58, Hachette UK

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A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.

John Steinbeck

Beautiful, Clever, Book

"Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Publishing", 1977.

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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.

Robert Frost

White, Tails, Said

Robert Frost, Gary D. Schmidt (1994). “Robert Frost”, p.36, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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Stefan: "Indian with a dot, not a feather.

Patricia Briggs

Dots, Indian

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Who are you?' Mo looked at the White Women. Then he looked at Dustfinger's still face. Guess.' The bird ruffled up its golden feathers, and Mo saw that the mark on its breast was blood. You are Death.' Mo felt the word heavy on his tongue. Could any word be heavier?

Cornelia Funke

Blood, White, Bird

Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.225, Scholastic Inc.

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A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.

Anne Bronte

Girl, Hurt, Eye

Anne Bronte (2012). “Agnes Grey”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

Diane Setterfield

Book, Reading, Light

Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

Dean Koontz

Comforting, Threatening, Brooms

Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.20, Bantam

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Finally, in October 1945, a man with swampy eyes, feathers of hair, and a clean-shaven face walked into the shop. He approached the counter. "Is there someone here by the name of Leisel Meminger?" "Yes, she's in the back," said Alex. He was hopeful, but he wanted to be sure. "May I ask who is calling on her?" Leisel came out. They hugged and cried and fell to the floor.

Markus Zusak

Eye, Men, Hair

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On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Shirley Jackson

Moon, Hair, Hands

Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”

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Of three things be wary- of a feather on a cat, The shepherd eating mutton, And a guardsman that is fat.

Mercedes Lackey

Cat, Shepherds, Three

Mercedes Lackey (2015). “The Complete Arrows Trilogy”, p.570, Penguin

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Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

Jodi Picoult

Growing Up, Voice, Sick

Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just saying." - Warren

Brandon Mull

Centaurs, Honey, Just Saying

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My father used to say: Every bird is one bird, and every book is one book, and every bird and every book is one thing too, under the words and the feathers." He finished with a flourish, as though the meaning of this was self-evident.

Clive Barker

Father, Book, Self

Clive Barker (2010). “Everville”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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