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• I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. "It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna?" "It probaly unlocks another dresser," Tori said. "One they threw out fifty years ago." "Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?

  Kelley Armstrong

  Crazy, Aunt, Thinking

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• A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.

  Louis J. Camuti

  Cat, Want, Determined

  Dr. louis J. Camuti, Marilyn Frankel, Haskel Frankel (1985). “All My Patients are Under the Bed”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Giving Up, Air

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• There are television sets in every home, every restaurant, every hotel room, every shopping mall-now they’re even small enough to carry in your pocket like electronic rosaries. It is an unquestioned part of everyday life. Kneeling before the cathode ray God, with our TV Guide concordance in hand, we maintain the illusion of choice by flipping channels (chapters and verses). It doesn’t matter what is flashing on the screen-all that’s important is that the TV stays on.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Home, Hands, Shopping

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• What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Light, Order

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Some advice to you guys, don't ever take keep your phone in your pocket whilst on a roller coaster.

  Asa Butterfield

  Phones, Guy, Advice

  Twitter post from Feb 24, 2015

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• I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

  Wayne Dyer

  Cutting, Needs, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 27, 2015

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• I will never have a photograph of her to carry around in my pocket. I will never have a letter in her handwriting, or a scrap-book of everything we've done. I will never share an apartment with her in the city. I will never know if we are listening to the same song at the same time. We will not grow old together. I will not be the person she calls when she's in trouble. She will not be the person I call when I have stories to tell. I will never be able to keep anything she's given to me.

  David Levithan

  Song, Book, Cities

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.193, Egmont UK

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• No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Good Night, Photography

  Robert Adams, Richard B. Woodward (2006). “Along some rivers: photographs and conversations”

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• I have a little tiny Emily Dickinson so big that I carry in my pocket everywhere. And you just read three poems of Emily. She is so brave. She is so strong. She is such a sexy, passionate, little woman. I feel better.

  Maurice Sendak

  Sexy, Strong, Feel Better

  "NOW" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. March 12, 2004.

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• We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Dust, Two, Gold

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.

  Tom Waits

  Play, Piano, Waiting

  "Boho Blues". Interview with Bart Bull in San Francisco for Spin Magazine (USA), Volume 3, No. 6, September 1987.

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• I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.

  Joanne Harris

  Drama, Autumn, Doors

  Joanne Harris (2005). “Gentlemen and players”, Doubleday UK

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• When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

  Daniel Pennac

  Important, Enough, Bigs

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• I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Cards, Boots, Cash

  Interview with Julie Miller, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.

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• President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that had helped cushion the blow of a would-be assassin's bullet.

  Maureen Dowd

  Blow, Presidential, Would Be

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• POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Alive, Sin, Cradle

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

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• "Forget Barbie, f-ck Nicki she's fake. She's on a diet", but my pockets eating cheese cake.

  Nicki Minaj

  Cake, Cheese, Bragging

  "Monster". Song by Kanye West Featuring Bon Iver, Rick Ross, Nicki Minaj & JAY-Z,

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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, Knives

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• The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Faces, Hocus Pocus

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• Strategy is simply resource allocation. When you strip away all the noise, that's what it comes down to. Strategy means making clear cut choices about how to compete. You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

  Jack Welch

  Mean, Cutting, Choices

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• There are things we never tell anyone. We want to but we can't. So we write them down. Or we paint them. Or we sing about them. It's our only option. To remember. To attempt to discover the truth. Sometimes we do it to stay alive. These things, they live inside of us. They are the secrets we stash in our pockets and the weapons we carry like guns across our backs. And in the end we have to decide for ourselves when these things are worth fighting for, and when it's time to throw in the towel.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Life, Writing, Fighting

  "How to kill a rock star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

  Walter E. Williams

  Motivation, Men, People

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• The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

  Robert Musil

  Fall, Learning, Crystals

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.535, Pan Macmillan

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Purses

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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