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• People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.

  Kim Harrison

  Believe, People, Looks

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• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wisdom, Struggle, Writing

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• I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.

  Ross Bleckner

  New York, Space, People

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• One of the appeals of markets, as a public philosophy, is they seem to spare us the need to engage in public arguments about the meaning of goods. So markets seem to enable us to be non-judgmental about values. But I think that's a mistake.

  Michael Sandel

  Philosophy, Mistake, Thinking

  "Michael Sandel: 'We need to reason about how to value our bodies, human dignity, teaching and learning'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2012.

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• Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.

  Gary Burton

  People, Listening, Records

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• In my spare time I like watching TV, laying on the couch, just chillin'.

  Casey Abrams

  Watching Tv, Tvs, Couches

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• You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!

  Duane G. Carey

  Hobbies, Way, Spare Time

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• We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.

  Peter DeGraaf

  Car, Needs, Tire

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• When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Velvet, December

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• So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

  Regina Spektor

  Letting Go, Rejection, Break

  Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004

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• The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.

  Michael Lind

  Pain, Believe, Sight

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• Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I'm a gamer, always have been.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, Video, Gamer

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• Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin' free Won't somebody come and rescue me? I am stranded, caught in the crossfire Stranded, caught in the crossfire! Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy Beggin' a dollar stealin' a dime Come on can't you see that I I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Eye, Night, Light

  Song: Crossfire

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• Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad.

  Horace

  Mad, Insanity

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• By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Passion, Swings, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.88

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• We all know the moon isn't made out of green cheese...but if it was made out of barbeque spare ribs would you eat it?

  Will Ferrell

  Moon, Blue, Bbq

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• When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.

  Cato the Elder

  Country, Giving, Needs

  Cato the Elder (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Cato the Elder (Illustrated)”, p.13, Delphi Classics

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• If you love someone, you'd rather suffer the pain alone to spare them.

  Betty Smith

  Pain, Suffering, If You Love Someone

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• You'll find it-when you try to die- The Easier to let go- For recollecting such as went- You could not spare-you know.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Letting Go, Trying

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.877, Delphi Classics

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• The language is spare and under control and has a genuine immediacy...The poems never preach but are lined out with a cool and therefore devastating effect

  Vern Rutsala

  Language, Immediacy, Genuine

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• Into love and out again, Thus I went and thus I go. Spare your voice, and hold your pen: Well and bitterly I know All the songs were ever sung, All the words were ever said; Could it be, when I was young, Someone dropped me on my head?

  Dorothy Parker

  Song, Humorous, Voice

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.

  Matthew Arnold

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Spare Time, Mass

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.581, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

  E. J. Hughes

  Time, Doors, Sketching

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• Ye rigid Ploughman! bear in mind Your labor is for future hours. Advance! spare not! nor look behind! Plough deep and straight with all your powers!

  Richard Henry Horne

  Agriculture, Mind, Looks

  Richard Henry Horne, “The Plough, A Landscape In Berkshire”

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