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• There's no point in comforting words, in telling her she'll be all right. She's no fool. Her hand reaches out and I clutch it like a lifeline. As if it's me who's dying instead of Rue.

  Suzanne Collins

  Hands, Comforting, Dying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.310, Scholastic Inc.

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• By the way of connecting with subject, with theme, I was able to find a kind of lifeline. Writing's like a lifeline. You have to get the right way in. Otherwise the material just lies there, and you can't do anything with it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Lying, Writing, Able

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• I really think [William] Burroughs was onto something here, when he said, "Dreams are a biologic necessity and your lifeline into space."

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Dream, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Book, Debt

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• Scientifically, I know beginnings don’t exist. The world is made of energy, which is neither created nor destroyed. Everything she is was here before me. Everything she was will remain. Her existence touches both my past and my future at one point—infinity. Lifelines aren’t lines at all. They’re more like circles. It’s safe to start anywhere and the story will curve its way back to the starting point. Eventually. In other words, it doesn’t matter where I begin. It doesn’t change the end.

  Shannon Lee

  Past, Curves, Circles

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• People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Helping Others, People, Faults

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• Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been depleted, the human population will disappear. . . . Project you imagination into the soil below you next time you go into the garden. Think with compassion of the life that exists there. Think, the drama, the sexuality, the harvesting, the work that carries on ceaselessly. Think about the meaning of being a steward for the earth.

  Marjorie Harris

  Life, Drama, Garden

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• I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.

  Antony Hegarty

  Lonely, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.

  Mark Nepo

  Tea, Listening, Way

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

  Terry Pratchett

  Memories, Way, Events

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.165, Random House

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• Dogs and other animals we bring into our homes serve as one of our most important links to Mother Nature. We may not think about it consciously, but they are our lifelines to a part of ourselves that we are at the brink of losing altogether.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Dog, Home

  FaceBook post by Cesar Millan from Sep 25, 2016

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• Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.

  John Dos Passos

  Art, Block, Past

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• Victimless crimes are the lifeline of the RIGHT virus. And there is a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Viruses, Growing

  William S. Burroughs (2013). “The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel”, p.155, Holt Paperbacks

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• Scales lie! You lose thirty pounds of muscle and you gain thirty pounds of fat and you weigh the same, right?
  Take that tape measure out. That won't lie. Your waistline is your lifeline.
  It should be the same as it was when you were a young person.

  Jack LaLanne

  Lying, Gains, Pounds

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• Yes, older drivers are more likely to injure themselves and others when they get behind the wheel. But if you take that away, that is really the last lifeline a lot of elderly people have.

  Tucker Carlson

  Elderly, People, Lasts

  "The Situation with Tucker Carlson"for Jan. 11th". "Scarborough Country" with Joe Scarborough, www.nbcnews.com. January 11, 2006.

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• In the land of Cheerios, dirty diapers, fleeting naps and interrupted sleep, other mothers are a lifeline.

  Susan Chira

  Mother, Dirty, Sleep

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• China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

  Ai Weiwei

  Party, Ideas, Effort

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• The rainforest is being cut down at alarming rates, and orangutans are losing their habitats and are being killed, as a result, faster than we can save them, but there is a solution. In Borneo, small parcels of rainforest land can be a lifeline for orangutans so long as they link together protected forests, enabling animals to move safely over greater distances.

  Katie Cleary

  Distance, Moving, Cutting

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education are no longer the lifelines of critical forms of individual and social agency.

  Henry Giroux

  Vocabulary, Agency, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

  Micere Githae Mugo

  Writing, Growth, Brilliant

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• And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

  Diane Setterfield

  Art, Book, Hard Times

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• Usually, when you're talking about work with other writers it's because something seriously bad is going on with your work and you've absolutely thrown out a lifeline and you're hoping that someone will help you with something. Either there's some bad feeling you have about the work, or sometimes it's not specific - just kind of solidarity.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Talking, Feelings, Helping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of the other species, we weren't important at all except for the damage we do. We do not rule the natural world, despite our conspicuous position in it. On the contrary, it is our lifeline, and we do well to try to understand its rules.

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

  Animal, Important, Trying

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• Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

  Jim Sinclair

  Mean, Gold, Portfolios

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• It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer. To their peril, they ignore that spiritual lifeline just at the time when their attention to it most needs to be intensified. By so doing they cut themselves of from revelation and inspiration and deprive themselves of hearing the Lord's voice. They give up the prospect of gaining the very hope and comfort for which their hearts yearn.

  David S. Baxter

  Spiritual, Prayer, Giving Up

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