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• When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, People, Attention

  "Brené Brown: 'People are sick of being afraid all the time'". Interview with John-Paul Flintoff, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• All I want to do is make serious movies that explore social issues and turn a profit, and slip the schnitzel to Jane DePugh.

  James Ellroy

  Issues, Serious, Want

  James Ellroy (1998). “Hollywood Nocturnes”, Delta

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• Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night and helps you say your prayers. It wakes you in the morning with a friendly cup of coffee, and knows exactly how you take it.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Morning, Prayer, Coffee

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.403, Delacorte Press

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• To see a man slip on a banana skin is to see a rationally structured system suddenly translated into a whirling machine.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Skins, Machines

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each morning and secretly take my insulin injection. I feared that if the Cubs found out and I slumped badly, they would attribute it to the diabetes and send me back to the minors - or worse, release me.

  Ron Santo

  Morning, Player, Games

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• The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son ofearth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Real, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.361

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• There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.

  Aristotle

  Cups, Lips

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• It's a special club. It's got history. When I slip on the Manchester United shirt, it's like I'm wearing its past. So you have to sacrifice yourself for this club.

  Patrice Evra

  Sacrifice, Past, Special

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• All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.

  Walter de La Mare

  Cat, Doors, Long

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• You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.

  Jay-Z

  Real, Sleep, Eye

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• Blood fills my mouth. Fire sears my veins. I choke back a howl. The silver knife slips--the
  choice is mine.
  I am death or life. I am salvation or destruction. Angel or demon.
  I am grace.
  I plunge in the knife.
  This is my sacrifice--
  I am the monster.

  Bree Despain

  Angel, Sacrifice, Fire

  Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.5, Egmont UK

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• Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?

  Mary Cantwell

  Strong, Hangover, Dark

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• When you see persons slip down on the ice, do not laugh at them. ... It is more feminine on witnessing such a sight, to utter an involuntary scream than a shout of laughter.

  Eliza Leslie

  Laughter, Sight, Ice

  Eliza Leslie (2016). “The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners”, p.25, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW

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• You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Faith, Giving Up, Use

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.121, Penguin

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• But if there is such a thing as social commitment in literature, I think it must manifest itself in a reader's awareness of the human condition, in the writer's touching some common nerve ending. I think this kind of social commitment, like a lady's slip, should be there but it must not show.

  Bel Kaufman

  Commitment, Thinking, Touching

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• The charm of Ronald Reagan is not just that he kept telling us screwy things, it was that he believed them all. No wonder we trusted him, he never lied to us. ... His stubbornness, even defiance, in the face of facts ('stupid things,' he once called them in a memorable slip) was nothing short of splendid. ... This is the man who proved that ignorance is no handicap to the presidency.

  Molly Ivins

  Stupid, Memorable, Ignorance

  Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.104, Vintage

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• Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

  Diane Ackerman

  Space, Needs, Phantoms

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “One Hundred Names for Love: A Memoir”, p.180, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner.

  Helen Fielding

  Writing, Shoes, Lunch

  Bridget Jones's Diary "January" (1996)

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• Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fall, Genius, Now And Then

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.102, 谷月社

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• [On William Lyon Phelps's Happiness:] It is second only to a rubber duck as the ideal bathtub companion. It may be held in the hand without causing muscular fatigue ... and it may be read through before the water has cooled. And if it slips down the drain pipe, all right, it slips down the drain pipe.

  Dorothy Parker

  Ducks, Hands, Water

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Book, Writing, Mean

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• There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.

  Graham Swift

  Humble, Land, Progress

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• a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mean, Gone, Letters

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• Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative.

  Stephen Colbert

  Air, Knives, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. October 16, 2012.

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• nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

  Lady Hester Stanhope

  Fool, Conversation, Packs

  Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (1845). “Memoirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope: As Related by Herself in Conversations with Her Physician; Comprising Her Opinions and Anecdotes of Some of the Most Remarkable Persons of Her Time”, p.377

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