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• Who are you?" he asked. I am the future queen of this world, at the very least. You may refer to me as Mistress Koboi for the next five minutes. After that you may refer to me as Aaaaarrrrgh, hold your throat, die screaming, and so on.

  Eoin Colfer

  Queens, Mistress, World

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• We roared. We were one big animal throat, roaring.

  Cory Doctorow

  Animal, Roaring, Bigs

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.191, Macmillan

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• The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide eyes, holding up his sword in defense, She heated his sword and he dropped it, his expression barely changing, as if he had been expecting that. She held up her two swords to his throat, but they were two heavy, so she dropped one and held the other with both hands. "Where are the two Bayern boys kept?" The soldier shook his head. BURN HIM, prompted the fire. The excitement of burning was simmering in her, heating her up for more action.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Boys, Two

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• Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Morning, Coffee, Cutting

  Ernest Hemingway (2007). “The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• The correct way to punctuate a sentence that states: "Of course it is none of my business, but -- " is to place a period after the word "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period. Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Cutting, Use, Way

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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• Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

  Ellen G. White

  Prayer, Heart, Humble

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• Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.

  Bob Woodward

  Views, Use, Information

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• She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their darkly shadowed hollows save only for the glint of them and he could see her throat move in the light and he saw in her face and in her figure something he'd not seen before and the name of that thing was sorrow.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Moving, Eye, Light

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

  Nikki Sixx

  Cutting, Angle, Wells

  Interview with Brett Christensen, wisconsinmusic.net. February 23, 2005.

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• How do you say 'bring me sausage and eggs or I'll slit your throat' in Italian?" "Look it up in the phrase book.

  Regina Doman

  Book, Italian, Eggs

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• Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

  George C. Williams

  Two, Body, Ends

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• Deep Throat did serve the public interest by providing the guidance and information to us.

  Bob Woodward

  Information, Guidance, Interest

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". The Washington Post Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

  Virginia Woolf

  People, Jelly, Too Much

  Letter to Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 4 July 1938

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• And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Blessed, Eye

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

  John Grierson

  Lying, Heart, Paradox

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• It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

  Bobby Darin

  Practice, Singing, No Excuses

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• Don't cut my throat, I may want to do that later myself.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Sports, Cutting

  Quoted in Joseph Durso, Casey: The Life and Legend of Charles Dillon Stengel (1967)

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• Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

  Bob Woodward

  Editors, Names, Source

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• Like all stories of creators who bring life from the dead, his story began with a struggling butcher, who chased a gray cat, caught it, took off its studded collar, and slit its throat.

  Salvador Plascencia

  Struggle, Cat, Stories

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• thou art the best o' the cut-throats

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cutting

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.165, Classic Books Company

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• The source known as Deep Throat provided a kind of road map through the scandal. His one consistent message was that the Watergate burglary was just the tip of the iceberg.

  Bob Woodward

  Tip Of The Iceberg, Maps, Scandal

  "Readers recommend: songs about scandal" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction

  John Owen

  Cutting, Exercise, Men

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

  John Boyes

  Peace, Voice, Violence

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• His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

  Angela Carter

  Two, Rubies, Chokers

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

  Thomas Huxley

  Determination, Past, Men

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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