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• Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, 'twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we're made.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Moving, Dark, Men

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• But monsters, I now know, come in all shapes and sizes, and only their appetite for human flesh defines them.

  Rick Yancey

  Monsters, Flesh, Size

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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• The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

  Haruki Murakami

  Color, Musician, Sound

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• Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Nature, Murder

  "The Sayings of William Wordsworth".

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• Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven’t tears enough for what you’ve done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight…I might have had that shape!’ Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia’s name. But Claudia did not hear her. ‘Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Years, Your Side

  Anne Rice (1976). “Interview with the Vampire: A Novel”

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• Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

  Patrick Ness

  Girl, Hair, Long

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient, linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal, immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Wise, Philosophical, Fate

  "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

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• Because you are never here but always there, I forget not you but what you look like You drift down the street in the rain, your face dissolving, changing shape, the colours running together My walls absorb you, breathe you forth again, you resume yourself, I do not recognize you You rest on the bed watching me watching you, we will never know each other any better than we do now

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Wall, Rain

  Margaret Atwood (1973). “Power politics”, Harper & Row, 1973

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• Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

  Deb Caletti

  Fate, Thinking, Curls

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

  Deb Caletti

  Fate, Love Is, Clouds

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• She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Lying, Lines, Patterns

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.

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• Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

  John Milton

  Loss, Lovely, Devil

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.32

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• A god's relationship to the world, even a world in which he was walking, was about as emotionally connected as that of a computer gamer playing with knowledge of the overall shape of the game and armed with a complete set of cheat codes.

  Neil Gaiman

  Games, World, Gamer

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  Sarah MacLean

  Running, Hands, Feelings

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• Memory can change the shape of a room; it can change the color of a car. And memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation, they're not a record, and they're irrelevant if you have the facts. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

  Christopher Nolan

  Memories, Color, Car

  "Fictional character: Leonard Shelby". "Memento", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Ideas, Fierce, Pleasure

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1124, Delphi Classics

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• I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more slily that Ulysses could, And like a Sinon, take another Troy. I can add colors to the chameleon, Change shapes with Proteus for advantages And set the murderous Machiavel to school. Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? Tut! were it further off, I'll pluck it down.

  William Shakespeare

  School, Color, Play

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• There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

  Michael Scott

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.556, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Or maybe...just maybe this whole process is our training wheels towards something bigger. If we can reflect and know our lives, we might stay awake and shape our futures.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Training, Might, Wheels

  Chuck Palahniuk (2004). “Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories”, NY Books

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• Your beliefs shape your attitudes!

  Andy Stanley

  Attitude, Belief

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• I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

  Arthur Golden

  Fire, Water, Personality

  "Memoirs Of A Geisha". Book by Arthur Golden, September 27, 1997.

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• I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

  Italo Calvino

  Dog, Moon, Night

  Italo Calvino (2014). “The Complete Cosmicomics”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

  William Faulkner

  Color, Heaven, Cottages

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconscious level we absolutely are. Whether the bond is temporary or permanent, whether it succeeds or fails, fate is simply a configuration of choices that combine with others to shape the relationships that surround us. We cannot choose our family, but we can choose our friends, and we sometimes, before we even meet them.

  Simon Pegg

  Fate, People, Choices

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• Whatever you are physically,' he said, 'Male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy -- all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are the flame.

  Cassandra Clare

  Strong, Heart, Warrior

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Angel”, p.283, Simon and Schuster

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