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• I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked his torn shirt.He felt warm and strong and heartbreakingly familiar. And at that moment, not a single thing in my life was certain, strong, or whole. Nothing. Least of all Fang.

  James Patterson

  Strong, Tears, Moments

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• And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over his trousers in sloppy fashion. All very out of charactar: Mandrake was normally defined by his rigid self-control. Somthing seemed to have stripped all that away. Well, the poor lad was emotionally brittle.He needed sympathetic handling. "You're a mess," I sneered "You've lost it big time. What's happened? All the guilt and self-loathing suddenly get to you? It can't just be that someone else called me, surly?

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fashion, Eye, Self

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• I love it here in Boston and I love studying medicine. But it’s not home. Dublin is home. Being back with you felt like home. I miss my best friend. I’ve met some great guys here, but I didn’t grow up with any of them playing cops and robbers in my back garden. I don’t feel like they are real friends. I haven’t kicked them in the shins, stayed up all night on Santa watch with them, hung from trees pretending to be monkeys, played hotel, or laughed my heart out as their stomachs were pumped. It’s kind of hard to beat that.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Growing Up, Real, Home

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• There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber,” she explained. “There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all get used up at once.” “I may still be hung over,” sighed Richard. “That almost made sense.

  Neil Gaiman

  Amber, May, Littles

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• And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

  Josh Lanyon

  Horse, Selfish, Arrogance

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• The name 'Wiz' comes from me being the youngest dude in my age group of people that I hung out with. I was pretty good at anything I tried to do, so they would call me a young wiz.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Names, People, Age

  "Wiz Khalifa on fame, love and being a rock star". Interview With Gavin Godfrey, www.indianapolisrecorder.com. September 23, 2011.

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• I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. Not a mark on me. Nico's mouth hung open. "You just . . . with a sword . . . you just—" "I think the river thing worked," I said. "Oh gee," he said sarcastically. "You think?

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Rivers, Clothes

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• If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

  Wendell Berry

  Humble, Cutting, Boys

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• I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Believe, Night, Healthy

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• I hung about the dangerous frontier of "guess," avoiding with infinite trouble to myself and others the broad valley of reason.

  Helen Keller

  Valleys, Trouble, Infinite

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• I feel like, If I would have lived in my hometown, I probably would have gotten in a lot more trouble. I was just in places where I could have gotten in trouble. I skateboarded a lot, just getting into the wrong stuff. I could've just hung out with the wrong friends.

  Justin Bieber

  Stuff, Wrong Friends, Hometown

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• The triumph of the Romans was indeed sullied by their treatment of the captive king, whom they hung on a gibbet without the knowledge of their indignant general. This disgraceful act of cruelty which might be imputed to the fury of the troops, was followed by the deliberate murder of Withicab, the son of Vadomair; a German prince, of a weak and sickly constitution, but of a daring and formidable spirit.

  Edward Gibbon

  Kings, Son, History

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.259

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• You might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.

  Howard W. Koch

  Sheep, Guilt, Lambs

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• I was a snot-nosed teenage skater at one point, who listened to only punk records and hung around people that had that idea of what is okay to do and what isn't okay to do.

  Ariel Rechtshaid

  Teenage, Ideas, People

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• I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.

  Anita Roddick

  Running, Business, School

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• The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

  Margaret Millar

  Spring, Past, Air

  Margaret Millar (1947). “Experiment in Springtime: A Novel”, New York : Random House

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• Fat is a barrier, a bellicose statement to others that, to some, justifies hostility in kind. The world says to the fat person, "Your fatness is an affront to me, so we have the right to treat you as offensively as you appear." Fat is not merely viewed as another type of tissue, but as a diagnostic sign, a personal statement, and a measure of personality. Too little fat and we see you as being antisocial, fearful and sexless. Too much fat and we see you as slothful, stupid, and sexually hung up.

  Albert Ellis

  Stupid, Food, Personality

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• My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.

  Linda Sue Park

  Children, Dad, Years

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• A pear-tree planted nigh:
  'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show,
  And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

  Alexander Pope

  Tree, Fruit, Pears

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.273

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• Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

  John Milton

  Weed, Sea, Dropping

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.691

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• And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

  John Milton

  Self, Earth, Centre

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.242.

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• My worst job was packing animal feed in a warehouse in Gloucestershire when I was a student. It was a very strange environment. It was hung heavy with oat dust, the place was infested with mice, and everyone who worked there was over 60, and I was 18. It was crazy. Apologies to anyone who works in animal-feed packing industry and loves it.

  Simon Pegg

  Jobs, Crazy, Apology

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• We are each of us like our little blue planet, hung in black space, upheld by nothing but our mutual reassurances, our loving lies.

  John Updike

  Lying, Space, Blue

  John Updike (2006). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.280, Penguin UK

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• In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

  James T. Farrell

  Growing Up, Father, Book

  JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

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• On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

  Mary McCarthy

  Wall, Gun, Waiting

  Mary McCarthy (1993). “Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938”, Harcourt

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