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• The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.

  Donna Tartt

  Snow, Mountain, Melting

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.4, Vintage

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• How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The wide mouth curved slightly in the first genuine smile Grey had seen. "I swallowed it," Fraser said. Grey's hand closed convulsively on the sapphire. He opened his hand and rather gingerly set the gleaming blue thing on the table by the chess piece. "I see," he said. "I'm sure you do, Major," said Fraser, with a gravity that merely made the glint of amusement in his eyes more pronounced. "A diet of rough parritch has its advantages, now and again.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Eye, Blue, Hands

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn”, p.2325, Delacorte Press

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• It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wine, Orange, Bird

  Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess (1972). “A clockwork orange”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Moon, Thinking, Discovery

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• Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

  Stephen Hawking

  Zero, Overcoming, Needs

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• I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.

  Russell Brand

  Thinking, Breathing, Arbitrary

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• She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward the floor. Instinctively she pulled her arms and legs in, keeping her eyes squeezed shut. The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. 'Nice', he said. 'As graceful as a falling snowflake.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Fall, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1259, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt free of everything that weighted her down on Earth. Free of danger, free of any pain she'd ever felt. Free of gravity.And so in love.

  Lauren Kate

  Pain, Earth, Danger

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• ...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution.

  Michael Shermer

  Religious, Believe, Reality

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.30, Macmillan

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• gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

  David Levithan

  Wonder, Imagine, Saved

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.98, Macmillan

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• Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Stars, Blue, Orange

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• A lot of the motivation for doing the 'Make 'Em Laugh' on SNL was because I had just finished shooting 'Inception,' where there were zero-gravity scenes and I got into really good shape and was training and did all these stunts. Coming off of that, that instilled me with the confidence to do 'Make 'Em Laugh.'

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Zero, Motivation, Laughing

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• Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Girl, Struggle, Air

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

  Jane Austen

  Character, Illustration, Trying

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.327, Penguin

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• I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

  Neil Gaiman

  Law, Numbers, Sandman

  "Sandman #63: 'The Kindly Ones: 7'". DC Comics series by Neil Gaiman, 1996.

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• I was like a lost moon―my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation―that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Moon, Law, Circles

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• We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Spiritual, Artist, Scientist

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• Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Seats, Comfortable

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “2061: Odyssey Three”, RosettaBooks

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• It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Monday, Long, Feelings

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.770, Scholastic Inc.

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• The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

  Randy Alcorn

  Rip, Law, Giving

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• You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet

  Simon Armitage

  Beautiful, Light, Feet

  Simon Armitage (2005). “The Shout: Selected Poems”, Houghton Mifflin

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• What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

  Thomas Pynchon

  Stars, Healing, Rainbow

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

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• Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Feelings, Everyday

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.32, Random House

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• I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Determination, Struggle, Past

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, James L. W. West (2005). “Fitzgerald: My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940”, p.140, Cambridge University Press

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• Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to laugh at their own frequently ridiculous behavior have vested interest in gravity because it supports their illusions of grandosity.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, People, Laughing

  Tom Robbins (2006). “Wild Ducks Flying Backward”, p.154, Bantam

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