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• Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

  John Burroughs

  Time, Fate, Hands

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers”

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• I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.

  Pitbull

  Hip Hop, House, Bass

  "Pitbull: 'I would be hypocritical to perform there'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• ...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing?

  R.D. Blackmore

  Dream, Introvert, Shallow

  M. J. Porteus, R.D. Blackmore (2014). “Lorna Doone: The Wild and Wanton Edition”, p.93, Crimson Romance

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• I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.

  Roy Keane

  Scotland, People, Darren

  "From mundane to marvellous: Darren Fletcher's startling transformation" by Louise Taylor, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

  James Toback

  Vicious, Thirds

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 30, 2009.

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• I got introduced to the rave scene in 1992. At the time I was into skateboarding; I listened to a little hip-hop but was mainly into heavy metal and grunge.

  Pedro Winter

  Hip Hop, Skateboarding, Littles

  "Pedro Winter/Ed Banger". Interview with Heiko Hoffmann, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  Weegee

  Giving Up, Play, Shoes

  Weegee (2013). “Weegee: The Autobiography (Annotated)”, p.137, BookBaby

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• He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.

  Nelson Riddle

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

  George Eliot

  Self, Vision, Height

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch”, p.165, Booklassic

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• A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep!

  Epes Sargent

  Life, Ocean, Home

  Epes Sargent (1849). “Songs of the sea, with other poems”, p.50

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• Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

  Stephen King

  Tears, Matter, Hours

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.326, Simon and Schuster

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• I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Thinking, Culture

  Source: thequietus.com

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• At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.

  Ruth Gordon

  Lying, Who Cares, Looks

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• I used to go to rave parties, too, but I was never savvy with techno.

  Rose Byrne

  Party, Used, Techno

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• A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Kings, Men, Grieving

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• from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only way to love, isn't it? this isn't a playground, this is earth, our heaven, for a while. therefore i have given precedence to all my sudden, sullen, dark moods that hold you in the center of my world. and i say to my body: grow thinner still. and i say to my fingers, type me a pretty song. and i say to my heart: rave on.

  Mary Oliver

  Song, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Nov 19, 2016

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• I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete — that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.

  J. D. Salinger

  Opposites, People, Sick

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• Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
  Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
  Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
  Where long ago a giant battle was;
  And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
  In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
  Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
  Into a sort of oneness, and our state
  Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
  Richer entanglements, enthralments far
  More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
  To the chief intensity: the crown of these
  Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
  Upon the forehead of humanity.

  John Keats

  Life, Feet, Self

  John Keats, “Endymion: Book I”

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• And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.

  James Agee

  Stars, Lying, Winter

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.66, Penguin

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• Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Paper, Littles

  Elizabeth Bowen (2015). “The Death Of The Heart”, p.7, Random House

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• One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Educational, School, People

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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• It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.

  Anousheh Ansari

  World, Excited, One Love

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I think that if most guys in America could somehow get their fave-rave poster girl in bed and have total license to do whatever they wanted with this legendary body for one afternoon, at least 75 percent of the guys in the country would elect to beat her up.

  Lester Bangs

  Girl, Country, Men

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• I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his native wild Is still a mighty mountain child.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Mountain, Obstacles

  John Ruskin (1903). “The Works of John Ruskin”

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