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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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• Before the counter-culture revolutionary Li Lian was executed in 1971 for criticising the Cultural Revolution, pour policemen pushed her face against the window of a truck, lifted her shirt and cut out her kidneys with a surgical knife,’ Mau Sen said, his face stony and white. ‘I think that removing the organs of convicts while they are still alive is too much. It completely contravenes medical ethics.’ ‘This is a dissection class, not a political meeting,’ Sun Chunlin said.

  Ma Jian

  Cutting, Thinking, Counter Culture

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• In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Civilization, Voice, Complacency

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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• His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Losing, Lost, Fine

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 240 (on Thomas Love Peacock)

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• The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.

  Alan Watts

  Cutting, Fire, Light

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• A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

  Robin Williams

  War, Heart, Cutting

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• Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Home, House

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• I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself?

  Kajol

  Years, Skins, Botox

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• My mother, for example, told the German officer not to kill her. She'd make it worth his while. And then, when they were doing it, she pulled a knife out of her belt and sliced open his chest, just like she used to open chicken breasts to stuff with rice for the Sabbath meal.

  Etgar Keret

  Mother, Example, Meals

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• The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of saying, Don't mess with me.

  Glenn Close

  Kitchen, Way, Don't Mess With Me

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• Never lick a steak knife.

  Dave Barry

  Steak

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• It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what is breaking up modern marriage.

  E. B. White

  Marriage, Cutting, Intelligent

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• If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

  Mark Kingwell

  Pulling, Ifs, Right Now

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• When someone sticks a knife six inches into your back, and then pulls it out two inches and claims he's doing you a favor, don't believe him.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Two, Sticks

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• The sharp knife of dawn glitters in my hand but how bare is everything-tall tall tree infinite air, the unrelaxing tension of the world and only hope, hope only, the kind eagle soars and wheels in flight.

  Martin Carter

  Hope, Eagles, Hands

  Martin Carter (1964). “Poems of Resistance”

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• Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.

  Wes Borland

  Loving What You Do, Records, Fantastic

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• Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself.

  Caitlin Moran

  Hurt, Self Harm, Want

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• Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be correct." He opened his knife drawer. "It goes here," he said, "until you return."(That's how you leave: by never saying good-bye.)And I learned that: to return. I came back the following year and the year after that. I hope to return every year (after all, I may never have the chance to learn so much), until I have no one to return to. (301)

  Bill Buford

  Years, Bye, Steel

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• "She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."

  Lewis Carroll

  Queens, Science, White

  Lewis Carroll (1929). “Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass and Other Comic Pieces”

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• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Rivers, Mirrors

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.It melts the frost that binds her lips.It melts the sea in her eyesss.(from uncorrected galley)

  Katherine Catmull

  Grief, Flames, Sea

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• When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

  Simon Newcomb

  Prayer, Men, Fifteen

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• I hate plastic surgery. I have a horror of any kind of knife. I don't like it.

  Rebecca De Mornay

  Hate, Kind, Horror

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• I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as much as I would like to be dark and playing with knives... it's not me and it's not my look.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Dark, Evil, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men can't be trusted with pruning shears any more than they can be trusted with the grocery money in a delicatessen . . . They are like boys with new pocket knives who will not stop whittling.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Boys, Men, Pockets

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