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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Echoes, Doors

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• It is time to provide a smashing answer for those cynical men who say that a democracy cannot be honest, cannot be efficient.... We have in the darkest moments of our national trials retained our faith in our own ability to master our own destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Men, Cynical

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• Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

  Maureen Johnson

  Running, Parent, Pieces

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “Girl at Sea”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.

  Will Sheff

  Real, Decay, Concrete

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

  Rob Sheffield

  Religious, Style, Looks

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• The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

  Billy Corgan

  Pumpkin, Fingers, Critics

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• Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

  Henry Rollins

  Morning, Air, August

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• Please let him come, and give me the resilience & guts to make him respect me, be interested, and not to throw myself at him with loudness or hysterical yelling; calmly, gently, easy baby easy. He is probably strutting the backs among crocuses now with seven Scandinavian mistresses. And I sit, spiderlike, waiting, here, home; Penelope weaving webs of Webster, turning spindles of Tourneur. Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love: I am here; I wait; and he plays on the banks of the river Cam like a casual faun.

  Sylvia Plath

  Baby, Home, Rivers

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• Asleep by the Smiths Vapour Trail by Ride Scarborough Fair by Simon & Garfunkel A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Dear Prudence by the Beatles Gypsy by Suzanne Vega Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues Daydream by Smashing Pumpkins Dusk by Genesis (before Phil Collins was even in the band!) MLK by U2 Blackbird by the Beatles Landslide by Fleetwood Mac Asleep by the Smiths (again!) -Charlie's mixtape

  Stephen Chbosky

  Night, Vegas, White

  Stephen Chbosky (2012). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

  Edith Wharton

  Mother, Exercise, Aunt

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1906, Delphi Classics

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• I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

  David James Duncan

  Confused, School, Sight

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

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• It was smashing working with Jerry Desmonde, he was a very nice chap.

  Norman Wisdom

  Nice, Chaps, Jerry

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

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• It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.

  Terry Pratchett

  Atheist, Turtles, Numbers

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Colour Of Magic: (Discworld Novel 1)”, p.103, Random House

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• Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that we had to rewrite the whole thing in shorthand, smashing it into two dimensions, just to talk about it. Or don’t imagine it. Look outside. Human language is our attempt at navigating God’s language; it is us running between the lines of His epic, climbing on the vowels and building houses out of the consonants.

  N.D. Wilson

  Running, Epic, Climbing

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• Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath.

  Ray William Johnson

  Games, Looks, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I approach every show from the same fundamental perspective: this is a conversation, and my job is to make people leave the show feeling like they've seen something singular. It's not about smashing someone over the head from the jump-off.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Jobs, Perspective, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• There is no way to understand the public reaction to the sight of a Freak smashing a coconut with a hammer on the hood of a white Cadillac in a Safeway parking lot unless you actually do it, and I tell you it's tense.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Food, Sight, White

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Soul, Progress, Pedestal

  "Dinosaur in a Haystack". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Can We Complete Darwin's Revolution?", p. 327, 1995.

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• The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into a future when there will not be many idols left to smash.

  Walter Lippmann

  Idols, Society, Looks

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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• The square was finally cleared by armed carabineri with tears of laughter streaming down their faces. The event set a record for hilarious civic functions, smashing the previous record set when Baron Hans Neizant B ompzidaize was elected Landburgher of K oln in 1653.

  Mike Harding

  Laughter, Humorous, Squares

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• The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.

  Amy Lee

  Sexy, Dog, Powerful

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• Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the war. “Not even Hiroshima and Nagasaki, suffering the smashing blows of nuclear explosions, could match the utter hell of Hamburg.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Blow, Hiroshima And Nagasaki

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• In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

  Deborah Tannen

  Mind, Doe, Dialogue

  Deborah Tannen (2012). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Thinking, Faces, Facts

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• You've seen [Doanld Trump] come out with a lot more specifics. He's not in hiding or smashing BlackBerry or BleachBit himself to death like we've seen Hillary do or Hillary [Clinton] throwing her stuff, you know, under the bus. She's not showing presidential leadership qualities.

  Kimberly Guilfoyle

  Presidential, Quality, Stuff

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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