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• My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

  John Oliver

  Queens, Voice, Ears

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• My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American.

  John Oliver

  Vowels, London, Tone

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• Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Stress, Impact, Sight

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• [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Expression, Giving, Excellence

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• He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.

  Pete Hamill

  Color, Red, Imagine

  Pete Hamill (2009). “Snow in August”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties have always needed...extentions. That's why I'm here with you. You're smiling again, or rather you're SMIRKING. Funny word, smirk. Rather like an extraterrestrial surname. Simon Smirk. How do you think that sounds?

  Thomas Ligotti

  Thinking, Imagination, Smirk

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• Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.504, Courier Corporation

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• She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Dark, Light

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.764, Delphi Classics

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• Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

  Matsuo Basho

  Winter, Wind, Solitude

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• he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Wall, Book, Dark

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something.

  Tony Kushner

  Country, Hate, Crazy

  "Angels in America". Book by Tony Kushner, May, 1991.

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• I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Girl, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Morning, Children, Generations

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.21, A&C Black

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• The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Yoga, Exercise

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• Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience: (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups; (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies; (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest -- that is, challenge the idea of the public interest. This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.

  John Ralston Saul

  Ideas, Government, People

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?

  Susan Fletcher

  Love Is, Sight, Lovely

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• It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Firsts, Broke

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

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• It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Play, Fifty

  Mark Twain (1961). “Twain: Wit and Wisecracks”

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• Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.

  E. M. Forster

  Teaching, Fate, Men

  E.M. Forster (2016). “A Room With a View (Diversion Classics)”, p.224, Diversion Books

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• How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.

  William Faulkner

  Attitude, Fall, Sunset

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• At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

  Herman Melville

  Hands, Volume, Length

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1969). “Redburn: Works of Herman Melville Volume Four”, p.87, Northwestern University Press

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• A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Morning, Fear, Rocks

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

  James M. Barrie

  Children, Land, Play

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.4, 谷月社

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• How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, War, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.63, Penguin

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• For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my dream still echoed through ears and heart, repeated with the sound of Brianna's sleeping breath. "You are mine," it had said. "Mine. And I will not let you go.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.738, Dell

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