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• I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the pocket-knife, for instance, the type of all human tools, the infant of the sword. Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about things in my pockets. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, Epic

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• When Chong made to sit down next to her, Lilah drew her knife and stabbed the point into the earth between them. "I can see that you need some quiet time," he said and scuttled quickly away.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Needs, Earth, Next

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.913, Simon and Schuster

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• [William] Klein has eyes like a knife. He is ruthless and outrageous but never mean - he is tender and funny and violent - and, I'm sure, really in love with our crazy Rome.

  Sophia Loren

  Crazy, Mean, Eye

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• Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

  Heath Ledger

  Father, Dark, Night

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• Take her to the kitchen,” came the order. “If she lies, throw her in the cauldron." “He was jesting about the cauldron, wasn’t he? You cannot have a cauldron big enough for a person?” Bard halted, sighed, looked at her with those wide, liquid eyes.“We,” he said, “have knives.

  Nalini Singh

  Lying, Eye, Order

  Nalini Singh (2016). “Royal House of Shadows: Part 10 of 12”, p.18, Harlequin

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• It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

  Ilona Andrews

  Bells, Reflexes, Undead

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.11, Penguin

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• Swords and knives make me feel vulnerable.

  Jose Gonzalez

  Vulnerable, Feels

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• The Swiss have an interesting army. Five hundred years without a war. Pretty impressive. Also pretty lucky for them. Ever seen that little Swiss Army knife they have to fight with? Not much of a weapon there. Corkscrews. Bottle openers. ‘Come on, buddy, let’s go. You get past me, the guy in the back of me, he’s got a spoon. Back off, I’ve got the toe clippers right here.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, War, Fighting

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• The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we cut to pieces by recklessly applying the murderous knife of intellectual surgery?

  D.T. Suzuki

  Mistake, Cutting, Two

  D.T. Suzuki (2011). “Essays in Zen Buddhism”, p.19, Souvenir Press

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• all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.

  Truman Capote

  Prayer, Past, Simple

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.62, Vintage

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• Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Play, Wounds

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.613, Wordsworth Editions

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• I took my mother's knife and played johnny johnny johnny on the playhouse floor. I was drunk, stabbed myself every few throws. I held my hand up and there was satisfaction at seeing my blood, the way there was when I saw the red gouges onmy face that people stared at and turned away. They were thinking I was beautiful, but they were wrong, now they could see how ugly and mutilated I was.

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Mother, Thinking

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

  Kanye West

  Gun, Up Early, Creative

  Song: Family Business

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• Words are like knives... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.

  Gosho Aoyama

  Use, Weapons, Way

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• Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly!

  Kiersten White

  Hot, Sometimes, Painful

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• What happened to you?" she asked. "I got hit in the side." "With what?" "A knife.

  J.R. Ward

  Brotherhood, Sides, Happened

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.1676, Penguin

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• less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Gun, Men

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.760, Bantam

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• Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Wise, Pain, Cutting

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23

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• A watermelon that breaks open by itself tastes better than one cut with a knife.

  Hualing Nieh Engle

  Cutting, Taste, Break

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• The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the borderline of their ability. I don't need anything sharper. Otherwise, on bad days, it might easily occur to me that I could always go stand in the bathroom in front of the mirror and slit my throat. On such occasions it's nice to have the added security of needing to go downstairs and borrow a decent knife from a neighbor.

  Peter Høeg

  Nice, Suicidal, Bad Day

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• Mortimer's face twisted when the Piper pressed his knife against his ribs. Oh yes, he's obviously made the wrong enemies in this story, thought Orpheus. And the wrong friends. But that was high-minded heroes for you. Stupid.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stupid, Hero, Enemy

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkdeath”, p.472, Chicken House

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• One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

  Robin Hobb

  Use, Staff

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Assassin's Apprentice: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.306, Spectra

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• They hit you with a knife, you find a gun

  Wes Moore

  Gun

  Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.121, Spiegel & Grau

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• the best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

  Ama Ata Aidoo

  Way, Sides, Problem

  Ama Ata Aidoo (1987). “The dilemma of a ghost ; Anowa: two plays”, Prentice Hall

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• I would never hit a woman - even if she had a knife or a stutter.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Ifs

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