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• Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

  Audre Lorde

  Life, Dream, Bridges

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.38, Crossing Press

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• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  Aldous Huxley

  Death, Ambition, Frustration

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Running, Men, Obstacles

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• Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Stars, Wall, Butterfly

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• A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

  Derek Landy

  People, Doe, Enough

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• How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose out past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge of everything that was against us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sweet, Father, Character

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• Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

  Virginia Woolf

  Effort, Habit, Masts

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

  Kirby Puckett

  Secret, Closets, Knows

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• What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!

  John Hench

  Artist, Pirate, Gone

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• None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  People, Perfect, Let It Go

  Source: www.nola.com

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• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Writing, Flesh, Scripts

  The New York Times, January 22, 1978.

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• The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

  David Cross

  Best Things

  "Let America Laugh". Interview with Dan Hoyle / WireTap, www.alternet.org. January 1, 2004.

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• I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

  Orlando Bloom

  Pirate, Moonlight, Concepts

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• The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.

  Mark Twain

  Girl, Lunch, Piano

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869”, p.235, Univ of California Press

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• Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.

  Primo Levi

  Civilization, Stories, Want

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

  David Cone

  Thinking, Office, Serious

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• The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

  Thomas Beecham

  Two, Musical, Sound

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• I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

  Brennan Manning

  Prayer, Love You, Past

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• After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.

  Gloria Swanson

  Years, Buried, Intimidated

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Waiting, Dying, President

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• Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dancing, Funeral, Singing

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2445, Delphi Classics

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• I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

  Darynda Jones

  Soul, May, Littles

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.69, Macmillan

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• America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, America, Earth

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

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• The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

  Arthur Koestler

  Progress, Desert, Ancient

  "Kaleidoscope: Essays from "Drinkers of Infinity" and the "Heel of Achilles" and Later Pieces and Stories".

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• He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

  Ray Bradbury

  Waiting, Philosopher, Hours

  Ray Bradbury (1980). “The Stories of Ray Bradbury”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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