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• Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

  John Lennon

  Faith, Jesus, Rock And Roll

  Jeff Burger, John Lennon (2017). “Lennon On Lennon: Conversations With John Lennon”, p.15, Omnibus Press

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• As long as I can wear something that's not too tight, I can move in it, it's not too thick, and I can breathe, it's great.

  Kellan Lutz

  Moving, Long, Breathe

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• Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Skins, Foxes, Notorious

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• There's a reason screens are only this thick.

  John Malkovich

  Reason, Screens

  "A multitude of Malkovich" by Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

  Marissa Mayer

  Night, Thinking, Glasses

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• Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Tired, Diets

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

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• Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Father, Moving, Son

  Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.

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• The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

  George Jean Nathan

  Atheism, Forests, Sound

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.5, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Thin clouds form, and the shadows lengthen out. They have no breadth, as summer shadows have; there are no leaves on the trees or fat clouds in the sky to make them thick. They are gaunt, mean shadows that bite the ground like teeth. As the sun nears the horizon, its benevolent yellow begins to deepen, to become infected, until it glares an angry inflamed orange. It throws a variegated glow over the horizon.

  Stephen King

  Summer, Mean, Sky

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it can. That's enough. Thick line. Straight toward you. - Look.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Book, Moon, Night

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• Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

  Anne Lamott

  Dream, Pain, Heart

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• The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

  Herodotus

  Hair, Skins, Noses

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• There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel eyes, Lucia in their twinkle. She was not alone. Maybe she never would be alone again. There, in the mirror, was every incarnation of Lucinda staring back at her and wondering, "What is to become of us? What about our history, and our love?

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Mirrors, Hair

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.976, Delacorte Press

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• I should hate to be a regular girl with a sugar-plum voice. I should hate to have swan-like lashes, and a thick, sooty neck. I sound as though I’m joking, I know, but I should truly hate to be like Leanne, so charming and ordinary and stuffed with clichéd feelings. I’m glad I’m the ice maiden. Who wants to be crying over every stray dog? Not I. Scratch my surface and what do you see? More surface.

  Franny Billingsley

  Girl, Dog, Hate

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.157, A&C Black

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• But I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that “walks” in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mother, Country, Father

  "Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen".

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• 17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Butterfly, Dust, Years

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• Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Hands, Three, Cairo

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• YOU YOU YOU your eyes, thick as a high school scrapbook crackling and yellow, curling at the edges a book of myths in which i do not appear.

  Clint Catalyst

  Book, School, Eye

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• I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.

  Jim Butcher

  Men, Years, Law

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• Stories are thick with meanings. You can fall in love with a story for what you think it says, but you can't know for certain where it will lead your listeners. If you're telling a tale to teach children to be generous, they may fix instead on the part where your hero hides in an olive jar, then spend the whole next day fighting about who gets to try it first. People take what they need from the stories they hear. The tale is often wiser than the teller.

  Susan Fletcher

  Falling In Love, Children, Hero

  Susan Fletcher (2011). “Shadow Spinner”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Being thick isn't an affliction if you're a footballer, because your brains need to be in your feet. And Beckham works hard, he's brave and he crosses a ball superbly. He treats a football like he does a wife, lovingly, with caresses.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Hard Work

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• We need to return to learning about the land by being on the land, or better, by being in the thick of it. That is the best way we can stay in touch with the fates of its creatures, its indigenous cultures, its earthbound wisdom. That is the best way we can be in touch with ourselves.

  Gary Paul Nabhan

  Fate, Land, Needs

  Gary Paul Nabhan (1994). “The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A murmuring, fateful, giant voice, out of the earth and sky, Voice of a mighty dying tree in the Redwood forest dense.... [T]he wood-spirits came from their haunts of a thousand years, to join the refrain; But in my soul I plainly heard. Murmuring out of its myriad leaves, Down from its lofty top, rising two hundred feet high, Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs - out of its foot-thick bark, That chant of the seasons and time - chant, not of the past only, but of the future.

  Walt Whitman

  Past, Years, Sky

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Redwood-Tree”

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• Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.

  John Steinbeck

  Sweet, Food, Volcanoes

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• I'm sure I'll find some use for the dress before summer."Kavill nodded, and closed his thick ledger. "Do let me know if it causes anyone to faint-or start a riot."She laughed under her breath, and turned to go, stuffing her hands into her pockets and praying her fingers didn't fall off on the way home."Here," Kavill said, and she turned to find a pair of exquisite dove-gray suede gloves in his hands. "On the house. For many years of loyal patronage." His face bore its usual mask of polite calm and courtesy, but his brown eyes were bright. "And a gift-for a year spent without any gloves at all.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Love, Summer, Fall

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