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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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• Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Eye, Fire, Flames

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• The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

  Douglas Adams

  Running, Years, People

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  If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.

  Harriet Tubman

  Dog, Want, Woods

  "It is Important to Have Black Faces on Dollars, but More Important to Get Dollars in Black Hands" by Dedrick Muhammad, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2016.

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• Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Names, Patriotism, Ambitious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.160, 谷月社

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• It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Crowds, Beard, Impossible

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 4, 1799.

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• Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away.

  Graham Greene

  Light, Opposites, Clothes

  "Books that make you cry: share your weepiest moments" by Moira Redmond, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2014.

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• My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  New York, Freedom, Father

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• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Birthday, Philosophy, Class

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• I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

  James Cash Penney

  Golden, Remember, Motto

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• He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

  Jose Marti

  Pairs, Stoops, Could Have Been

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

  Jane D. Hull

  Lakes, Flames, Cities

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• In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Character, Color

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• But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Play, Ideas

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• I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Suicide, Block, War

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• Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Christmas, Frustration, Light

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• May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Joy, Understanding, Humanity

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• His love for her was a gift he gave her daily, expecting nothing in return. He walked at her side, his love for her a torch to guide her footsteps along the dark path she walked.

  Margaret Weis

  Dark, Love For Her, His Love

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2011). “Dragons of a Fallen Sun: War of Souls Trilogy, Volume One”, p.34, Wizards of the Coast

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• You must reach inside yourselves where I live like a story, not old, not young laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Laughing, Sorrow, Stories

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• Neither torch nor dagger," Annabeth said firmly. "There is a third test, which I will pass." "A third test?" the pater demanded. "Mithras was born from rock," Annabeth said, hoping she was right. "He emerged fully grown from the stone, holding his dagger and torch." The screaming and wailing told her she had guessed correctly. "The big mother knows all!" a ghost cried. "That is our most closely guarded secret!" Then maybe you shouldn't put a statue of it on your altar, Annabeth thought.

  Rick Riordan

  Mother, Rocks, Secret

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• Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Dark, Night

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Over The Misty Mountains Cold”

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• He came to this country like a torch on fire and he swallowed air as he walked forward and he gave out light

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Fire, Light

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.151, Vintage

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• You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

  Margaret Atwood

  Song, Thinking, Trying

  Margaret Atwood (2015). “Morning in the Burned House”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Ever hold your hand over a torch (sorry, a flashlight for you Americans).

  Rick Riordan

  Sorry, Hands, Flashlights

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought?

  Ray Bradbury

  Wall, Mirrors, Light

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