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• She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation. In spirit she walks the city, traces its labyrinths, its dingy mazes: each assignation, each rendezvous, each door and stair and bed. What he said, what she said, what they did, what they did then. Even the times they argued, fought, parted, agonized, rejoined. How they’d loved to cut themselves on each other, taste their own blood. We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin?

  Margaret Atwood

  Cutting, Thinking, Doors

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.408, Anchor

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• I climbed like a billion stairs... its not like I can take them two at a time.

  Danny DeVito

  Two, Billions, I Can

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• Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Men, Needs

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, p.23, David C Cook

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• An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Break, Convenience, Staircases

  "Live album: "Mitch All Together"". December 9, 2003.

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• Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Cups, Flight

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.148, eBookIt.com

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• Jazz is like a great blues band that fell down the stairs

  Michael Buble

  Band, Jazz

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• Get your runtcheeks down those stairs, right now

  James Dashner

  Right Now

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.33, Scholastic UK

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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis

  Baby, Art, Entertainment

  Quoted in Doug McClelland Star Speak (1987).

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• Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Lying, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
  The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  
  Great Nature has another thing to do
  To you and me, so take the lively air,
  And, lovely, learn by going where to go.
  
  This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
  What falls away is always. And is near.
  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
  I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fall, Sleep, Light

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.165, Anchor

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• Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

  Patricia Briggs

  People, Faces, Slinkies

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.867, Penguin

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• Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It disclosed a great hole that went plumb-down. "That is the way," he said. "But there are no stairs." "You must throw yourself in. There is no other way.

  George MacDonald

  Men, Caves, Earth

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Works of George MacDonald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Theological Writings & Essays (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, England’s Antiphon, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, The Light Princess, The Golden Key and many more”, p.2287, e-artnow

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• The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view. Costis passed it, and then went back up the stairs to look again. There were only the roofs of the lower part of the palace and the town and the city walls. Beyond those were the hills on the far side of the Tustis Valley and the faded blue sky above them. It wasn't what the king saw that was important, it was what he couldn't see when he sat at the window with his face turned toward Eddis.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Summer, Kings, Wall

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• I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast O’Keeffe ‘Sky Above Clouds’ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.

  Joan Didion

  Daughter, Art, Light

  Joan Didion (2013). “The White Album”, p.84, Zola Books

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• My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Too bad the freedom seemed like a prison. As his boots hit the mosaic floor at the bottom of the stairs, John Mellencamp's old-school, bic-lighter anthem echoed in his head-and though he'd always like the song okay, he'd never truly understood what it meant. Kind of wished that were still the case. Life goes on...long after the thrill of living is gone.

  J.R. Ward

  Song, School, Long

  J. R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: Number 8 in series”, p.480, Hachette UK

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• Aren’t you going to ask me how it went, Kitten?" “You walked in and took the stairs one at a time,” I answered. “And you haven’t barked at me to get in the car, so I take it Majestic didn’t tell you our asses were trophies for hunting season. Am I wrong?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Hunting, Car, Majestic

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• It was clear they weren’t getting any information out of Ian tonight. She, Bones, and Cat followed as Spade supported Ian, almost carrying him up the stairs to then dump him on the bed in a guest room. “Before you go, mate, turn on the telly. Something raunchy, too. Think I’ll rub one off before I sleep.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sleep, Cat, Thinking

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• A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

  Robert Benchley

  Fun, Men, Years

  Robert Benchley, Gluyas Williams (1949). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, New York : Harper

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• My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

  Ramakrishna

  Important, Rope, Bamboo

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Dumb, Answers, Climbers

  "Greg Gutfeld's advice for grads". www.foxnews.com. May 19, 2015.

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• A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in the car safely first. Take good care of your woman, and the sky's the limit!

  Taraji P. Henson

  Men, Sky, Car

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

  Gerry Cooney

  Real, Men, Hiking

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

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• Of course, I am grateful for my strength. It makes me self-sufficient. When I bought a refrigerator, I carried it myself up the stairs to my apartment on the eighth floor.

  Aleksandr Karelin

  Grateful, Self, Refrigerators

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