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• I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Father, Flames, Knives

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.104, Penguin

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• Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path. ... He has tipped us over, all of us in our teetering expectancy, and now we are pouring toward him, coursing on a wave of sound, of roaring shouts and applause. ... They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world.

  Lauren Oliver

  Moon, People, Waiting

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• Marisa! Marisa!” The cry was torn from Lord Asriel, and with the snow leopard beside her, with a roaring in her ears, Lyra’s mother stood and found her footing and leapt with all her heart, to hurl herself against the angel and her daemon and her dying lover, and seize those beating wings, and bear them all down together into the abyss.

  Philip Pullman

  Mother, Heart, Angel

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this is the fact which Nature moans over, and deprecates beseechingly. Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals! is the song she sings through warbling birds, and whispering pines, and roaring waves, and screeching winds.

  Lydia M. Child

  Song, Nature, Men

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 38, 1843.

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• I don't know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We've had an earthquake; we've had a hurricane. He said, 'Are you going to start listening to me here?' Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we've got to rein in the spending.

  Michele Bachmann

  Government, Earthquakes, People

  "Bachmann: Hurricane Irene Was Message From God" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. August 29, 2011.

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• Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  Saint Peter

  Encouragement, Humble, Hands

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Country, Crazy

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• While a few pertinent points have to be marked, the general impression I desire to convey is of a side door crashing open in life's full flight, and a rush of roaring black time drowning with its whipping wind the cry of lone disaster.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Doors, Wind, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2016). “Lolita”, p.140, Hamilton Books

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• I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Teaching, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

  Cory Doctorow

  Animal, Bigs, Throat

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.191, Macmillan

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• There are in me, in literary terms, two distinct characters: one who is taken with roaring, with lyricism, with soaring aloft, with all the sonorities of phrase and summits of thought; and the other who digs and scratches for truth all he can, who is as interested in the little facts as the big ones, who would like to make you feel materially the things he reproduces.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Taken, Character

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• He was drunk upon the average once a day, and penitent upon an equally fair calculation once a month; and when he was penitent, he was invariably in the very last stage of maudlin intoxication. He was a ragged, roving, roaring kind of fellow, with a burly form, a sharp wit, and a ready head, and could turn his hand to anything when he chose to do it.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Average

  Charles Dickens (1903). “The Works of Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every day life and everyday people. 1903”

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• They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Dark, Past

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.339

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• The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dream, Journey, Cliffs

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol II: Prince Caspian”, p.109, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

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• Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

  Tristan Tzara

  Color, Opposites, Contradiction

  "Dada manifesto" by Tristan Tzara, translated by Robert Motherwell, (1918); as quotes in "Dada Painters and Poets" by Robert Motherwell, New York, (pp. 78-81), 1951.

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• Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Luck, Abel, Said

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• My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They're rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.

  Robert E. Howard

  Hate, Real, Character

  Letter to Harold Preece, c. January or February 1928.

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• There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray right over the top of the lighthouse, biting pieces off the cliff. And the sound is a roaring of a beast whose anger knows no limits. Those are the nights the light is needed most.

  M. L. Stedman

  Ocean, Night, Islands

  "The Light Between Oceans". Book by M. L. Stedman, 2012.

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• Peace is something tangible. It silences the outgoing energy of the mind and feeds the aspiring heart. Peace is not merely the absence of quarreling and fighting. True peace is not affected by the roaring of the world, outer or inner. This sea of peace is at our command if we practise the spiritual life.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Heart, Fighting

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• The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Bible, God, Christian

  Reinhard Bonnke (2015). “Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days In God’s Word”, p.314, Whitaker House

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• The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.

  Homer

  Lying, Dark, Sea

  Homer (1950). “The Iliad”, Turtleback

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