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• The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.

  Pentti Linkola

  War, Years, People

  Pentti Linkola (2011). “Can Life Prevail?”, p.152, Arktos

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• because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.

  Alan Paton

  Stars, Lying, Journey

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.

  Helen Humphreys

  Goodbye, Lost Ones, Choices

  Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Book, Eye, Journey

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2011). “The Way the Crow Flies”, p.123, Vintage Canada

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• My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Character, Thinking, People

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Apocalypse, Program

  "Fictional character: General "Buck" Turgidson". "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb", www.imdb.com. 1964.

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• I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.

  Daniel Handler

  Thinking, People, Get Better

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• The problem with improvisation is, of course, that everyone just slips into their comfort zone and does sort of the easy thing to do, the most obvious thing to do with your instrument.

  Brian Eno

  Obvious Things, Comfort, Doe

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.

  Anita Nair

  Believe, Character, Writing

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• For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

  Sam Altman

  Growing, Ships, Software

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• And while all of your friends are grieving at your wake, I hope the sprinkler system turns on and sprays them with AIDS, hepatitis C and liquified genital warts. And while they're all running out and crying, I hope one of them slips and accidentally molests a child.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Running, Children

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• I hope you slip in a puddle of AIDS and crack your head open

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Humor, Cracks

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• When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Writing, Light, Hair

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• Hee stands not surely, that never slips.

  George Herbert

  Not Sure

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.318

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• Time rides with the old
  At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds
  See the near landscape fly and flow behind them,
  While the remoter fields and dim horizons
  Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,
  So in old age things near us slip away,
  And distant things go with us.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Age, Horizon

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1525, Delphi Classics

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• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  R. C. Sproul

  Passion, Exercise, Weekend

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• Every artist of importance creates his own world, with its own laws - creates and shapes it in his own shape and image, and no one else's. This is why it is difficult to fit the artist into a world that has already been created, a seven-day, fixed and solidified world: he will inevitably slip out of the set of laws and paragraphs, he will be a heretic.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Inspirational, Art, Law

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• I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

  Michelle Williams

  Water, Deep Thought, Want

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• There's several ways to be a journalist. One way is to be combative and take the person to task and what you have is a portrait of somebody defending themselves, which is interesting. The other thing is to slip into their world and really be a representative for all the people that love the experience of that artist, and have them get so comfortable that you become invisible and they're themselves.

  Cameron Crowe

  Artist, People, Interesting

  Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2011.

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• I always have a lot of vents and slits in the clothes I design, even inside the pockets so that I can slip my hands inside my clothes and touch my skin. I want to be able to feel my body naked inside my clothes.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Hands, Clothes, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which allow for the attitudes, gestures and movements of a man but that are still female in taste and free enough so that I can slip my hands inside!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Running, Attitude, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.

  Don Marquis

  Country, Atheism, Noses

  Don Marquis (2013). “The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel”, p.67, Doubleday

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• A people may let a king fall, yet still remain a people, but if a king let his people slip from him, he is no longer a king.

  Abigail Adams

  Kings, Fall, People

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.127, UPNE

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• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Thinking, Creating

  "Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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