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• He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in the glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Heart, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellanies”

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• I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
  Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
  Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
  Bless me! It's a daffodil!

  Celia Thaxter

  Gold, Doe, Wonder

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• Oh, I've got glitter in my hair. That's not all that's in my hair, I'll tell you that. I glue it on every morning, whether I need to or not.

  Mitt Romney

  Morning, Hair, Awkward

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• Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style.

  Jonathan Raban

  Book, People, Style

  Jonathan Raban (1992). “For Love and Money: A Writing Life”, Perennial

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• Well, there are always those who cannot distinguish between glitter and glamour . . . the glamour of Isadora Duncan came from her great, torn, bewildered, foolhardy soul.

  Dorothy Parker

  Soul, Duncan, Glamour

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• One must have a mind of winter to regard the frost and the boughs of the pine trees, crusted with snow, And have been cold a long time, to behold the junipers, shagged with ice, the spruces, rough in the distant glitter of the January sun, and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind, in the sound of a few leaves, which is the sound of the land, full of the same wind, blowing in the same bare place for the listener, who listens in the snow, and, nothing herself, beholds nothing that is not there, and the nothing that is.

  Wallace Stevens

  Time, Winter, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.89, Vintage

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• A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.

  Russell Brand

  Halloween, Ocean, Home

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• Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequer’d face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirror’d to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wand’ring where the heart delights to dwell.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Nature, Eye

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• George Bush has shown great skill at disguising an incredibly weak foreign policy.

  Brad Sherman

  Skills, Weak, Foreign Policy

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• I brake for birds. I rock a lot of polka dots. I have touched glitter in the last 24 hours. I spend my entire day talking to children. And I find it fundamentally strange that you're not a dessert person. It freaks me out. I'm sorry that I don't talk like Murphy Brown. And I hate your pants suit. I wish it had ribbons on it or something just to make it slightly cuter but that doesn't mean I'm not smart and tough and strong.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Strong, Children, Sorry

  "Fictional character: Jess". "New Girl" (Season 1, Episode 11), 2011-2018.

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• More than the diamond Koh-i-noor, which glitters among their crown jewels, they prize the dull pebble which is wiser than a man, whose poles turn themselves to the poles of the world, and whose axis is parallel to the axis of the world. Now, their toys are steam and galvanism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Science, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Humility, Reflection, Order

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Winter, Shining

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• My aunt and overprivileged cousin only recognize two states of being: glitter and grunge. And if you weren’t glitter, well, that only left one other option.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cousin, Aunt, Two

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.30, Harlequin

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• Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Political, Rudeness

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• I think of myself as Rebecca Wells from Lodi Plantation, in Central Louisiana, a girl who was lucky enough to be born into a family that encouraged creativity and didn't call me lazy or nuts when I dressed up in my mother's peignoirs and played the piano, having painted a small sign decorated in glitter that read 'The Piano Fairy Girl.

  Rebecca Wells

  Girl, Mother, Creativity

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• The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Water, Mind, Sun

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Lakes, Water

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• It was a weak spot in any nation to have a large body of disaffected people within its confusion.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  People, Confusion, Weak Spots

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• The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Scared, Weak, Persons

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.18

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• There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Virtue, Certain, Wells

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• I could see myself as a glitter-hippie.

  Kylie Minogue

  Hippie

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• Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.

  Joseph Addison

  Happiness, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635”, p.308

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• ...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

  Mark Twight

  Memories, Ambition, Sleep

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.26, The Mountaineers Books

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• Basically Britney Spears' video is like a three an a half minute version of Glitter.

  Christian Finnegan

  Three, Video, Half

  "Best Week Ever", www.imdb.com. (2004-).

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