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• She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.

  Lois Lowry

  Husband, Doctors, Wind

  Lois Lowry (1978). “Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Men, Snakes

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Feet, Air, Bells

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.111, Hamilton Books

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• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Laughing

  Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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• Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Couple, Believe, Boys

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1924). “Mother Mason”, p.34, U of Nebraska Press

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• It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Wind, Childhood, Kingdoms

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2014). “The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart of the smoke. Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him. And it did, too.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

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• For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Moving, Dark, Forever

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

  Agatha Christie

  Energy, Whiplash

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• ...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most ruinous of all poisons; people hear Beethoven in concert halls, or over a bridge game, or to relax; Cézannes are hung on walls, reproduced, in natural wood frames; van Gogh is the man who cut off his ear and whose yellows became recently popular in window decoration.

  James Agee

  Strong, Wall, Cutting

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• I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

  Sylvia Plath

  Numbers, Perfectly Good, Gold

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• I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.

  John Wyndham

  Book, Men, Thinking

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• ...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.

  Anita Desai

  Moon, Garden, Risk

  Anita Desai (1980). “Clear Light of Day”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Song, Lost Love, Careful

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Feb 02, 2014

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• Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

  John Grogan

  Dad, Cutting, Looks

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• O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Soul, Training, Window

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• When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look like the Rat Pack in 1962. I, myself made that kid Booger look like Remington Steele.

  Dennis Miller

  Revenge, Character, Kids

  Dennis Miller (2001). “I Rant, Therefore I Am”, p.126, Crown Forum

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• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?

  William Shakespeare

  Song, Imagination, Gorges

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [201]

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• I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

  Adam Sandler

  House, Lots Of Friends

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• Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Home, America

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• The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw. After a while these flies found Simon. Gorged, they alighted by his runnels of sweat and drank. They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs. They were black and iridescent green and without number; and in front of Simon, the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned. At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.

  William Golding

  Eye, White, Numbers

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.100, Hamilton Books

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• My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

  Mark Ronson

  Girl, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto.

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• Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for a good fit. And a lot of times, a good fit is someone different than yourself. I'm not one to get too hung up on outside appearances. I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Want, Way

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I spent a weekend in the White House with President Clinton, back in '99, I guess. We played golf and just hung out and talked on many subjects. I saw him several times subsequently in L.A. He's the smartest man I ever met, a great politician. Everybody was star struck around him.

  Dennis Quaid

  Stars, Golf, Weekend

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• I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

  Richard Pryor

  Loner

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