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• Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

  Max Eastman

  Art, Lying, Style

  Max Eastman (2017). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.259, Routledge

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• The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, God, Humorous

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.381, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Book, Littles, Rubber

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• It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

  Eric Hoffer

  Power, Evil, Promise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in, meaning the fame and the glory, the glitter, the rock star, the famous part.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Stars, Rocks, Musician

  "Edward Van Halen Is Alive" by David Curcurito, www.esquire.com. April 17, 2012.

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• God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

  Garrett Fort

  Evil, Soul, Mind

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• My body gets weak without truth.

  Andrei Platonov

  Body, Weak

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• We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

  Anne Carson

  Life, Earth, Humans

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• Our minds are like crows. They pick up everything that glitters, no matter how uncomfortable our nests get with all that metal in them.

  Thomas Merton

  Crow, Mind, Nests

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.

  Brian Setzer

  Song, Real, Cat

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• Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
  Rising thro' the mellow shade,
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
  Tangled in a silver braid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Science, Night

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement.

  Herman Melville

  Opulence, Glare, Should

  Herman Melville (2016). “Herman Melville The Dover Reader”, p.505, Courier Dover Publications

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• I was talking to my friend from New York yesterday, and I used the expression, 'You can't polish a turd'. He looked at me, disgusted, and said, 'No, you can't, but you can roll it in glitter'. He's a lovely guy but I wouldn't want to go to a craft fair with him

  Steve Williams

  New York, Expression, Talking

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• My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when I knew that if I held up my hands and spread my fingers like a net, I could catch the coming stars.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Father, Twilight

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Bridges, Gaps

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.188, Anchor

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Sparkle, Virtue

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• The streets lie, the sidewalks lie, everything lies
  You can try and read it but you're gonna get it wrong...all wrong
  The summer evenings burn and melt and the nights glitter but you're gonna get it wrong
  And it's gonna sink its teeth into your flesh and pull you to the bottom.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Lying, Night

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• If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Christian, Eye

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• When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

  John Heisman

  Opponents, Weakness, Weak Spots

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• I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.

  Martin Gore

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their hand closed over a something that was not to be felt nor longer seen, mere colored air.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Success, Air, Hands

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• For me... it's the only life
  That I've ever known
  And love is only one...
  Fine star...away
  Even though the living
  Is sometimes laced with lies...
  It's alright...
  The feeling remains
  Even after the glitter fades

  Stevie Nicks

  Stars, Lying, Love Is

  Song: After The Glitter Fades, Album: Bella Donna

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• A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

  Winston Churchill

  Shadow, Reputation, Fame

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

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• It is the cold glitter of the attacker's eye not the point of the questing bayonet that breaks the line.

  George S. Patton

  Eye, Army, Bayonets

  "How We Are Changed by War: A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom". Book by D.C. Gill, p. 70, 2010.

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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