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• Good evening, Lord Corwin,' said the lean, cadaverous figure who rested against a storage rack, smoking his pipe, grinning around it. Good evening, Roger. How are things in the nether world?' A rat, a bat, a spider. Nothing much else astir. Peaceful.' You enjoy this duty?' He nodded. I am writing a philosophical romance shot through with elements of horror and morbidity. I work on those parts down here.

  Roger Zelazny

  Philosophical, Writing, Smoking

  Roger Zelazny (2000). “The Hand of Oberon”, G K Hall & Company

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• Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.

  Mark Nepo

  Light, Broken, Water

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press

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• Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This isn't the Ouija board or the spirit-world we're talking about here, but just another job like laying pipe or driving long-haul trucks. Your job is to make sure the muse knows where you're going to be every day from nine 'til noon. or seven 'til three. If he does know, I assure you that sooner or later he'll start showing up.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Talking, Long

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Either greed belongs in a war zone, or it doesn't. You can't unleash it in the name of sparking an economic boom and then be shocked when Halliburton overcharges for everything from towels to gas, when Parsons' sub, sub, sub-contractor builds a police academy where the pipes drip raw sewage on the heads of army cadets and where Blackwater investigates itself and finds it acted honorably. That's just corporations doing what they do and Iraq is a privatized war zone so that's what you get. Build a frontier, you get cowboys and robber barons.

  Naomi Klein

  War, Army, Cowboy

  "The Real Blackwater Scandal: Build a Frontier, You Get Cowboys". Interview with John Cusack, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2010.

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• My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own.

  John Marsden

  Writing, Heart, Mean

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

  Patton Oswalt

  Romance, Three, Steel

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• The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs—it's been documented—discover if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." So?" So that's what art is for the artist, an empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

  Margaret Atwood

  Art, Powerful, Voice

  Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.168, Anchor

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• Holmes had cultivated the ability to still the noise of the mind, by smoking his pipe and playing nontunes on the violin. He once compared this mental state with the sort of passive seeing that enables the eye, in a dim light or at a great distance, to grasp details with greater clarity by focusing slightly to one side of the object of interest. When active, strained vision only obscures and frustrates, looking away often permits the eyes to see and interpret the shapes of what it sees. Thus does inattention allow the mind to register the still, small whisper of the daughter of the voice.

  Laurie R. King

  Daughter, Distance, Eye

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• The poor things keep calling in those – those pumbles, I think they're called – you know, the ones who mend pipes and things – " "Plumbers?" " – exactly, yes, but of course they're flummoxed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Calling, Poor

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• The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects.

  Julio Cortazar

  Book, Drug, Quality

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• Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand, then played his pipes. They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. "That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested. "Oh, shut up.

  Rick Riordan

  Wind, Nuts, Patterns

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Sound, Judgment

  William Shakespeare (2004). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.54, Sparklesoup LLC

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• We were so far back in the woods, they almost had to pipe in sunlight.

  Roy Rogers

  Woods, Sunlight

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• A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Depression, Men, Melancholy

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.126, The Floating Press

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• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Air, Musical

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Music, Silence, Ears

  'The Habit of Perfection' (written 1866)

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  Hanna Rosin

  Quilts, Men, Kitchen

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• If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Daughter, Humor

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• We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Dragons, Talking

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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• Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.

  Ewan McGregor

  Thinking, Horny, Band

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2002.

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• Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.

  Kathy Lette

  Love, Beautiful, Dog

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• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

  Anthony Burgess

  Fashion, Men, Novelty

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• after all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Men, Doctors, Soul

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.70, Faber & Faber

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• Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Men

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