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• Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

  Bobby Darin

  Wells, Make Out, Sooner Or Later

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• I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

  Louise Brooks

  Bores You, People, Ifs

  "Lulu in Hollywood". Book by Louise Brooks, 1982.

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• Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.

  Roald Dahl

  Pain, Doctors, Doubt

  Roald Dahl (2016). “Boy and Going Solo”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Temptation, Dozen, Lines

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• I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.

  Tom Colicchio

  Jobs, Skills, Years

  "Tom Colicchio: The ESQ + A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 26, 2011.

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• I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall - because of the impact - my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.

  Apolo Ohno

  Wall, Impact, Legs

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• I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jam, Use, Gas

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• Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, Princess, Chopping

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, White Man, Laughing

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• Why do you tolerate it? (Kat) The same reason Sin hasn’t resigned himself to death. There are six billion people on earth who need someone to protect them from things that are scarier than the tax man or a knife-wielding stranger. Things that a gun won’t stop. As long as their lives hang in the balance, what’s a little humiliation for me? (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gun, Men, Long

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• I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord.

  Neil Young

  Workout, Thinking, Keys

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• I can 100 percent tell you that I have not gone under the surgeon's knife or had a facelift.

  Shane Warne

  Gone, Facelifts, Percent

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• In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Taken, America

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• The coolest gift I've ever gotten from a fan was from the Franklin Mint. It was a knife, and it had a picture of General Wade Hampton, who my oldest son is named after. It's a collector's item and came with a case and a stand and everything.

  Josh Turner

  Son, Fans, Wade

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• As they say in Italy, Italians were eating with a knife and fork when the French were still eating each other. The Medici family had to bring their Tuscan cooks up there so they could make something edible.

  Mario Batali

  Eating, Forks, Cooks

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Eye, Hunting, Vegas

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.55, Vintage

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• My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?

  Simon Sinek

  Nice, Sight, People

  "It’s Not Nice to Stab People" by Simon Sinek, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

  Lisa See

  Sister, Hurt, Love You

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• Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Air, Blood

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “The Impossible Knife of Memory”, p.298, Penguin

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• When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, Heart, Portraits

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• Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, May, Dinner

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Much Ado About Nothing”, p.85, Penguin

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• You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Philosophy, Moving, Fighting

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.202, Penguin

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• Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black. She has a knife, knife, knife, stuck in her back, back, back. She cannot breathe, breathe, breathe. She cannot cry, cry, cry. Thats why she begs, begs, begs. She begs to die, die ,die...

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Missing, Black, Cry

  Laurie Faria Stolarz (2011). “White is for Magic”, p.83, North Star Editions, Inc.

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• The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

  Henry Miller

  Fleeting, Flash

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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• The shrill voices of those who give orders Are full of fear like the squeakings of Piglets awaiting the butcher's knife, as their fat arses Sweat with anxiety in their office chairs.... Fear rules not only those who are ruled, but The rulers too.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Order, Sweat, Voice

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.297, Taylor & Francis

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