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When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.

Jerry Spinelli

Light, Tears, Cry

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When I started off, I was working in a shed behind my house. All I had was a drill, an electric drill. That was the only machine I had.

James Dyson

House, Machines, Electric

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One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. "Good" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a "common good"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Profound, Mouths, Littles

Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.243, Modern Library

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The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Heart, Meditation, House

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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Alexander Pope

Hands, Play, Blood

Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.4

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Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.

Karen Marie Moning

Snakes, Yesterday, Skins

Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.230, Dell

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The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love. Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we did.

Pope John XXIII

Brother, Blood, Names

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That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.

Jess Row

Drinking, Character, Divorce

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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Because I work at other things, whenever I get a chance to write I feel grateful for it. But I learned that sometimes, I couldn't do anything else and I shouldn't plan to do anything that night or the next day. There were times when I was writing something difficult for days or weeks and when I'd finish, I would get up and go out of my shed into the garden and be sick. I had terrible migraines.

Damian Barr

Grateful, Writing, Night

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It's not for him to suffer or to laugh or to experience ecstasy or agony in the manner of the characters on the pages.

Richard Flanagan

Character, Agony, Laughing

Source: www.guernicamag.com

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I was really struck by all these people who had committed suicide. There are videos of all of them talking about why they're so happy to shed their human existence and exit their "vehicles" and I thought, "Why is that?"

Joshuah Bearman

Suicide, Talking, People

Source: therumpus.net

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It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other.

Morgan Freeman

Actors, Shells, Working With Others

"New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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The director of the institute where I was working apologized about these young, enthusiastic researchers when the World Bank visited because he was afraid the institute would lose the World Bank consultancies.I went back home and started the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecologyan extremely elaborate name for the tiny institute that I started in my mothers cow shed. My parents handed over family resources and said, Put them to public purpose. Thats how I survived.

Vandana Shiva

Mother, Home, Technology

Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

Commitment, Organization, Benefits

Source: bobmorris.biz

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If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness.

Cate Blanchett

Beautiful, Thinking, Self

"Cate Blanchett Talks Red Carpet Beauty and Dates With Destiny". Interview with Crystal Meers, www.elle.com. March 1, 2016.

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All these tears shed in the world, where do they go? If one could capture all of them, they could water the parched. Then perhaps these tears would have value and all this grief would have some meaning. Otherwise, it was all a waste, just an endless cycle of birth and death; of love and loss.

Thrity Umrigar

Grief, Loss, Water

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As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers

André Aciman

Letting Go, Dream, Opposites

André Aciman (2011). “False Papers”, p.61, Macmillan

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Which do you think is more my friend, the water in the four great oceans or the tears that you have shed on this long way of taking birth again and again?

Gautama Buddha

Ocean, Thinking, Long

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How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

Janet Fitch

Men, Tears, Way

Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.23, Hachette UK

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I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Writing, Light, Law

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Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.

William Zinsser

Art, Voice, Skins

"On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 13 "Bits & Pieces," p. 136), 1976.

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If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to start an opposition ocean to the Atlantic and Pacific, with enough left over to run the Great Salt Lake out of business. But I wish to say I never shed any of these tears personally, because I am never in love, and furthermore, barring a bad break, I never expect to be in love, for the way I look at it love is strictly the old phedinkus, and I tell the little guy as much.

Damon Runyon

Running, Ocean, Love Is

Damon Runyon (2008). “Guys and Dolls and Other Writings”, p.216, Penguin

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Frequently also some fair-weather finery ripped off a vessel by a storm near the coast was nailed up against an outhouse. I saw fastened to a shed near the lighthouse a long new sign with the words "ANGLO SAXON" on it in large gilt letters, as if it were a useless part which the ship could afford to lose, or which the sailors had discharged at the same time with the pilot. But it interested somewhat as if it had been a part of the Argo, clipped off in passing through the Symplegades.

Henry David Thoreau

Sea, Weather, Long

Henry David Thoreau (1866). “Cape Cod”, p.128

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Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Blood, Years

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.299, Library of Alexandria

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A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

New York, Children, Men

MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

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