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• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

  E. B. White

  Fall, Writing, Circus

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.159, Cornell University Press

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• It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.

  Charles Bukowski

  Order, Honey, Taste

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.440, Canongate Books

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• My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

  Johnny Depp

  Tattoo, Self Harm, Artist

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• If I can wheedle
  A knife or a needle,
  Why not a Silver Churn?

  W. S. Gilbert

  Imagination, Why Not, Silver

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.395, Oxford University Press

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• By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I’m wearing a bright red dress. And there’s a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.

  Veronica Roth

  Eyelashes, Perfect, Dresses

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• A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.

  Rene Daumal

  Errors, Blades

  Rene Daumal (2004). “Mount Analogue”, p.37, The Overlook Press

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• Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

  Paul Simon

  Cutting, Rock And Roll, Sorrow

  Song: God Bless The Absentee

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• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mind, Democracy, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Letters, ed. by C. E. Norton”

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• Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
  may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

  R.L. LaFevers

  Assassins, Edges

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• Prison is like high school with knives.

  Raegan Butcher

  School, High School, Prison

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• All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Edition”, p.423, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Death, Science, Atheism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.181, Vintage

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• One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

  Tim Curry

  New York, Mean, Night

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• I have seen purer liqors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier women courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited.

  Hinton Rowan Helper

  Gun, San Francisco, Pistols

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• I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

  Martin Yan

  Cooking, Tools, Toys

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• At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

  Dennis Rodman

  Gun, Car, Cliffs

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• The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Hollywood, Allure, Behinds

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• Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Mad, Wife, Smoking

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

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• Daimonds are a girls best friend- they're sharper than knives

  Lynne Ewing

  Girl

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• I have a knife collection. I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. I close it and open it.

  Taylor Momsen

  Collections

  "What's the gossip on knives, Metro?", www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2010.

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• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Philosophy, School

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, Block, Food

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Martin Chuzzlewit: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As you all know first prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Anyone wanna see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

  David Mamet

  Cadillacs, Firsts, Steak

  "Glengarry Glen Ross". www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• I think the biggest thing is clean as you go. Wash all your knives, cutting boards, dishes, when you are done cooking, not look at a sink full of dishes after you are done. Cleaning as you go helps keep away cross contamination and you avoid having food borne bacteria.

  Cat Cora

  Cutting, Thinking, Cooking

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