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• The father spent his time talking and thinking of religion. He proclaimed himself an agnostic and was so absorbed in destroying the ideas of God that had crept into the minds of his neighbors that he never saw God manifesting himself in the little child that, half forgotten, lived here and there on the bounty of her dead mother's relatives.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Mother, Children, Father

  Sherwood Anderson (1995). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, People, Known

  "Nicholas Sparks, Author of 'Nights in Rodanthe' and 'The Notebook'". Live Q&A, www.washingtonpost.com. September 17, 2008.

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• The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Running, Generations, Links

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Time and Again”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Morning, Mean, Cnn

  "Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, 1991.

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• Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.

  Susan Kay

  Regret, Memories, Firefly

  "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

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• The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

  Helen McCloy

  Hate, Heart, Beauty Everywhere

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• The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Important, Different, Stories

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• I know with Gary Ross especially, he kind of gave me pointers here and there, but he kind of let me become firm in any way that I needed, and he just let me try things and to explore what I can do with my acting. So that was very helpful.

  Willow Shields

  Trying, Acting, Way

  "Comic-Con 2012: 'Hunger Games' Star Willow Shields on Playing Jennifer Lawrence's Sister". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 17, 2012.

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• I bleed all the time. I play golf and stuff, so there's always something, nicks and stuff, here and there.

  O. J. Simpson

  Golf, Play, Stuff

  "Imagine yourself as an O.J. juror" by Christopher Matthews, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

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• There is almost a touch of condescension in the act of hiring friends that secretly afflicts them. The injury will come out slowly: A little more honesty, flashes of resentment and envy here and there, and before you know it your friendship fades. The more favors and gifts you supply to revive the friendship, the less gratitude you receive.

  Robert Greene

  Gratitude, Honesty, Envy

  Robert Greene (2010). “The 48 Laws Of Power”, p.12, Profile Books

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• There was emptiness more profound than the void between the stars, for which there was no here and there and before and after, and yet out of that void the entire plenum of existence sprang forth.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Profound, Void

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• I personally believe that most people that play an instrument would be able to write a few songs here and there. But they say, "I tried, I can't do it" and give up and don't try it again; they get too discouraged.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Giving Up, Believe

  "Excerpt: New book chronicles Keith Richards interviews". Interview with Whitney Matheson, www.usatoday.com. September 9, 2013.

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• There was no wind; there was no passing shadow on the deep shade of the night; there was no noise. The city lay behind him, lighted here and there, and starry worlds were hidden by the masonry of spire and roof that hardly made out any shapes against the sky. Dark and lonely distance lay around him everywhere, and the clocks were faintly striking two.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Distance, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export”, p.863, Jester House Publishing via PublishDrive

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• It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

  John le Carre

  Luck, Forget, Easy

  The Looking-Glass War (1965). It's not so easy to forget that le Carre's intelligence is, well, fiction.

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• I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Girl, Hair, Bikers

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• Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Class, Two, Age

  Thomas De Quincey (1873). “The Works of Thomas De Quincey, "The English Opium Eater": Including All His Contributions to Periodical Literature”, p.237

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• Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

  Basil Bunting

  Home, Cities, Names

  Basil Bunting (2016). “The Poems of Basil Bunting”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• My field-mouse had made a set of brand-new tracks; here and there they etched themselves, following the brown flowers. It seemed as if uncommon spirits had seized their little maker, for sometimes he had leaped a yard, the festive mite! There was no other track pursuing; the leaps must have been mere joy.

  Anne Bosworth Greene

  Flower, Track, Joy

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• I entered beauty pageants in much the same spirit most people enter politics - with high ideals and ambitions. Similarly, I had to make some adjustments here and there along the way.

  Elizabeth Ray

  Disappointment, Ambition, People

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• I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?

  Hanan al-Shaykh

  Country, Two, Wish

  Hanan al-Shaykh (2013). “Beirut Blues”, p.366, Anchor

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• I feel like [throughout] my entire career and life, that I've been judged by people who really did not know me. But I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was so little to go on out there. If you only see videos of me being crazy and hearing little things here and there, then obviously you're not going to have any idea who I really am.

  Nicki Minaj

  Crazy, Thinking, Careers

  "BWW Interview - Nicki Minaj: 'I've Been Spectacular' on AMERICAN IDOL". Interview with Tyler Peterson, www.broadwayworld.com. March 26, 2013.

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• Here and there on the branch of an oak a congress of leaves still clung, rigid as flakes of bronze.

  Martha Ostenso

  Autumn, Branches, Congress

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.

  Charles Keating, Jr.

  Writing, Scribbles, Wells

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• I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

  Drew Barrymore

  Littles, Rooms, Feng Shui

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