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• I was breathless, talking as fast as I could. I was afraid if I stopped talking, even for a second, I’d start sobbing again. “Whoa, there.” Fang smiled and reached up, tracing a hand down the side of my face, winding strands of my hair around his fingers. “Stop talking and let me just tell you how great it is to wake up staring at your face. Okay?

  James Patterson

  Hands, Talking, Hair

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• It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

  Alain de Botton

  Good Life, Taken, Ideas

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• We're on speaking terms today. I say, Maybe we should hang out with the boys, and you shake your head. I want to spend time with you, you say. If we're still good, next week maybe. That's the most we can hope for. Nothing thrown, nothing said that we might remember for years. You watch me while you put a brush through your hair. Each strand that breaks is as long as my arm. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

  Junot Diaz

  Letting Go, Hurt, Boys

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• Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

  Paullina Simons

  Despair, Body, Shattered

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• The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

  Peter Garrett

  Motivation, Mean, Opportunity

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• America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.

  Ralph Ellison

  Life, Country, Fate

  Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.590, Vintage

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• The strands of spaghetti were vital, almost alive in my mouth, and the olive oil was singing with flavor. It was hard to imagine that four simple ingredients [olive oil, pasta, garlic and cheese] could marry so perfectly.

  Ruth Reichl

  Simple, Oil, Perfection

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• In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.

  Walter Scott

  Listening, Guardian, Mood

  Sir Walter Scott (1849). “Select Poetical Works: Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake and Rokeby”

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• Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling it until the entire sweater unraveled into a pile of string. Hiking the PCT was the maddening effort of knitting that sweater and unraveling it over and over again. As if everything gained was inevitably lost.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Knitting, Sweaters, Hiking

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• Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or 'use', value to nature. Deep ecology does not separate humans - or anything else - from the natural environment. It does see the world not as a collection of isolated objects but as a network of phenomena that are fundamentally interconnected and interdependent. Deep ecology recognizes the intrinsic value of all human beings and views humans as just one particular strand in the web of life.

  Fritjof Capra

  Views, Web Of Life, Doe

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• I think of something quite different from a snapshot. I know of a lot of poems, some very fine ones, that are like snapshots, but I'm more interested in poetry that is like an endless film, long stories, things that weave together many different strands, like a big piece of cloth, not like a photograph.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Thinking, Long, Together

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• In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

  William Lilly

  Years, House, Pounds

  William Lilly, Elias Ashmole (1822). “William Lilly's history of his life and times from the year 1602 to 1681”, p.78

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• All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. We quote not only books and proverbs, but arts, sciences, religion, customs, and laws; nay, we quote temples and houses, tables and chairs, by imitation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Law

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.94, Harvard University Press

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• We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Differences, People

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• It was about forgiving. I understood that forgiveness itself was strong, durable—like strands of a web weaving around us, holding us.

  Jane Hamilton

  Strong, Forgiving, Weaving

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• Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in sheer joy. The strain on a violin string when stretched to the uttermost gives it its strength; and the stronger the strain, the finer is the sound of our life for God, and He never strains more than we are able to bear.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Patience, Giving

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Joy and Peace: A Holy Condition”, p.84, Discovery House

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• Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.

  Sam Abell

  Light, Expression, Horizon

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• What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book? I don't really know, but I rather think he was going to be paralysed for life. Don't you?

  Daphne du Maurier

  Book, Hero, Mean

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• The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

  Bret Anthony Johnston

  Loss, Past, Bridges

  Bret Anthony Johnston (2014). “Remember Me Like This: A Novel”, p.197, Random House

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• There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Strong, War, Distance

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• Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in a way, it obviously adds another strand and helps you... a little bit more.

  Gerard Butler

  Makeup, Add, Four

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• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teacher, Ideas, Grace

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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• There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Hands, Long

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• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!

  Walter Scott

  Country, Hands, Land

  'The Lay of the Last Minstrel' (1805) canto 6, st. 1

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