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So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

Paul Fussell

Dream, War, Past

Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

Dan Simmons

Forever, Religion, Endymion

Dan Simmons (2011). “Rise of Endymion”, p.403, Spectra

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Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

Boys, Men, Order

Mark Twain (1992). “Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn”, p.14, Wordsworth Editions

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Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had no heart any more, it had been broken; or not broken, it simply wasn't there any more. It had been scooped neatly out of me like the yolk from a hard-boiled egg, leaving the rest of me bloodless and congealed and hollow. I'm heartless, I thought. Therefore I'm homeless.

Margaret Atwood

Home, Heart, Eggs

Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.447, Anchor

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I felt no passion, no jealousy, no nostalgia. I was hollow, clear-headed, clean, and as emotionless as an aluminum pot.

Umberto Eco

Passion, Aluminum, Nostalgia

Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I become like a tuning fork to the information that is coming through me, in shamanism they call it being the 'hollow reed'.

Tom Kenyon

Tuning, Information, Reeds

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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Book, Writing, Sound

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 66, 1799.

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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

John Ashbery

Poetry, Hammers

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Fame puts you there where things are hollow.

David Bowie

Fame

Song: Fame D Bowie J Lennon C Alomar, Album: Young Americans, 1975

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Genius, as an explosive power, beats gunpowder hollow.

Thomas Huxley

Power, Gunpowder, Genius

Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.

Charles Darwin

Struggle, Fighting, Ideas

Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.209, VM eBooks

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How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

Ingrid Weir

Life, Hate, Waste

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Life and stories are alike in one way: They are full of hollows. The king and queen have no children: They have a child hollow. The girl has a wicked stepmother: She has a mother hollow. In a story, a baby comes along to fill the child hollow. But in life, the hollows continue empty.

Franny Billingsley

Girl, Mother, Baby

Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.160, A&C Black

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The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

D. H. Lawrence

Morning, Stars, Distance

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3360, Delphi Classics

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In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

Bette Lord

Hands, Civilization, Water

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It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.

Friedrich Schiller

Fall, Accomplish Nothing, Hands

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As well have a talon as a finger, a muzzle as a mouth,
as well have a hollow as a heart.

Robert Hayden

Heart, Muzzle, Mouths

Robert Earl Hayden, Frederick Glaysher (1984). “Collected Prose”, p.152, University of Michigan Press

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When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

Al Neuharth

Men, Voice, Silence

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When the juices of trees have no means of escape, they clot and rot in them, making the trees hollow and good for nothing.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Mean, Tree, Juice

"De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book II, Chapter IX, Section 4), irca 15 BC.

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Style is just an impression. Style itself is hollow. Style, its ok style as long as it is part of a language. Style for style itself is just something very hollow.

Alfonso Cuaron

Long, Style, Language

"Alfonso Cuaron on How Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey Jr. Almost Starred in 'Gravity'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 18, 2014.

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It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Struggle, Men, Mind

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But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see.

Gregory Maguire

Home, Eye, Filled Up

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Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Love Is, Talking, Doe

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... The Book is more important than your plans for it. You have to go with what works for The Book - if your ideas appear hollow or forced when they are put on paper, chop them, erase them, pulverise them and start again. Don't whine when things are not going your way, because they are going the right way for The Book, which is more important. The show must go on, and so must The Book.

E. A. Bucchianeri

Book, Writing, Ideas

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Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and justice as anybody. But what disgusts me even more are people who have no imagination. The kind T. S. Elliot calls 'hollow men'. People who fill up that lack of imagination with heartless bits of straw, not even aware of what they're doing. Callous people who throw a lot of empty words at you, trying to force you to do what you don't want to.

Haruki Murakami

Hurt, Pain, Men

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