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• Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.

  Sri Yukteswar Giri

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Cutting

  "Autobiography of a Yogi". Book by Sri Yukteswar Giri, 1946.

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• No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style.

  Steven Brust

  Style, Wizards, Matter

  Steven Brust (2003). “The Book of Athyra”, p.134, Penguin

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• Put not your Knife to your mouth unless it be to eat an Egge.

  Hannah Woolley

  Eggs, Mouths

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• This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Editors, Breakfast

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.98, Xist Publishing

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• You could stab a knife right through my heart and you'd be too late.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Heart, Too Late, My Heart

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Got tight last night on absinthe and did knife tricks. Great success shooting the knife underhand into the piano. The woodworms are so bad and eat hell out of all the furniture that you can always claim the woodworms did it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Piano, Shooting

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• Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

  Marcel Proust

  Oysters, Parent, House

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• All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

  Wally Lamb

  World, Shade, Undone

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force of logic; for the sharp spear, the blazing gleam of truth; for the rapier, the quick and flashing knife of wit.

  Lloyd Paul Stryker

  Justice, Battle, Trials

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• I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

  Maya Lin

  Pain, Cutting, Loss

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• . . . These are notions of the mind, which is like a knife, always chipping away at the Tao, trying to render it graspable and manageable. But that which is beyond form is ungraspable, and that which is beyond knowing is unmanageable. There is, however, this consolation: She who lets go of the knife will find the Tao at her fingertips.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Knowing, Mind

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

  Eugenio Montale

  Love You, Eye, Light

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• Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Naked, World

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [335]

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• What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

  Alain Robbe-Grillet

  Girl, Dream, Blood

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• A thousand years ago the Chinese had an entirely codified kitchen while the French were still gnawing on bones. Chopsticks have been around since the fourth century B.C. Forks didn't show up in England until 1611, and even then they weren't meant for eating but just to hold the meat still while you hacked at it with your knife.

  Ruth Reichl

  Years, Kitchen, Chinese

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• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Gun, Racism

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• Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

  Robert Jordan

  Men, Easier, Spears

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• Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Should Have, Sea, Cliffs

  "The Life of Mahatma Gandhi". Book by Louis Fischer, 1950.

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• All the general fear I've been feeling condenses into an immediate fear of this girl, this predator who might kill me in seconds. Adrenaline shoots through me and I sling the pack over one shoulder and run full-speed for the woods. I can hear the blade whistling toward me and reflexively hike the pack up to protect my head. The blade lodges in the pack. Both straps on my shoulders now, I make for the trees. Somehow I knew the girl will not pursue me. That she'll be drawn back into the Cornucopia before all the good stuff is gone. A grin crosses my face. Thanks for the knife, I think.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Running, Thinking

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• Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Dark, Night, Pieces

  Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Scott Westerfeld: Leviathan Trilogy: Leviathan; Behemoth; Goliath”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But then, they would. After all, he had just leapt to his feet unexpectedly, waving his saxe knife around like a lunatic.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Feet, Lunatic

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• The mishandling of food and equipment with panache was always admired; to some extent, this remains true to this day. Butchers still slap down prime cuts with just a little more force and noise than necessary. Line cooks can't help putting a little English on outgoing plates, spinning them into the pass-through with reverse motion so they curl back just short of the edge. Oven doors in most kitchens have to be constantly tightened because of repeatedly being kicked closed by clog-shod feet. And all of us dearly love to play with knives.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Cutting, Doors, Play

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.26, A&C Black

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• Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Night, Lasts, Absinthe

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• On the morning of the fourth day, Jamie tipped a switchblade out of his box of cornflakes.   “I think these promotional campaigns have really got out of hand,” he said, freezing with his hand on the milk carton. “One shiny free knife with every packet of cereal bought is not a good message to send out to the kiddies.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Morning, Thinking, Cereal

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• You won't even take your bow? Are you planning to throttle a moose with your bare hands, then?" "I've a knife in my boot," she said, and then wondered, for a moment, if she could throttle a moose with her bare hands.

  Kristin Cashore

  Hands, Moose, Boots

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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