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• I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that was the best advice I've had in my whole life, because in all the years to come there were many directors who gave me what I thought were quite impossible instructions and many difficult things to do, and just when I was on the verge of starting to argue with them, I heard his voice coming to me through the air saying, "Ingrid, fake it!" It saved a lot of unpleasant situations and waste of time.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Thinking, Voice, Air

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• It's much easier to write a solemn book than a funny book. It's harder to make people laugh than it is to make them cry. People are always on the verge of tears.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Writing, People

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• Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.

  William Goldman

  Beach, Love You, Love Is

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Love, from its awful throne of patient power
  In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
  Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
  And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
  And folds over the world its healing wings.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Wise, Spring

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.441

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• Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.

  Jodi Picoult

  Needs, Looks, Mouths

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe for the frozen sea within us.

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Book, Suicidal

  Franz Kafka (1993). “Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka”

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• I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

  Margaret Atwood

  Girl, Boys, Awkward

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?" Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies. "Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees. It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself. "So it's possible," she said thoughtfully.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Lying, Mean, Sleep

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.408, Dell

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, Fall, Said Life

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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• He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

  Mary Balogh

  Blue, Sky, Heaven

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• Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

  Bliss Carman

  Beauty, Eye, Giving

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• There's no district 12 to escape from now, no Peacekeepers to trick, no hungry mouths to feed. The Capitol took away all of that, and I'm on the verge of losing Gale as well. The glue of mutual needs that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away.

  Suzanne Collins

  Years, Melting Away, Together

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.127, Scholastic Inc.

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• The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Embarrassing, Best Work

  Richard Isadore Evans, Arthur Miller (1969). “Psychology and Arthur Miller”, Praeger Publishers

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• She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the tangledness of farewells and all the baggage they brought with them. But now, looking at Deb, I realized what else I'd given up: knowing for sure that someone was going to miss me. What happened to goodbye, Michael in Westcott had written on my Ume.com page. I was pretty sure I knew, now. It had been packed away in a box of its own, trying to be forgotten, until I really needed it. Until now.

  Sarah Dessen

  Goodbye, Farewell, Emotional

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.210, Penguin

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• -You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

  Anne Rice

  Ties, Mad, Looks

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• I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Happened, Has Beens

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.197, Courier Corporation

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• I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Men, Able, Remember

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.18, Wordsworth Editions

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• Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

  William Styron

  Self, Way, Painful

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Judging, Outcomes, Action

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• I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so that I could not make out a single word. My life was a beautiful mystery on the verge of understanding, always on the verge! Think of it!

  Charles Simic

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

  Charles Simic (2013). “New and Selected Poems: 1962-2012”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Hair, Blood

  "American Psycho". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

  Pema Chodron

  Quality, Down And, Might

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Tell me that you refuse to allow me to be so stupid. Tell me that you will not tolerate this relationship being over just when it was on the verge of really taking off.

  Freya North

  Stupid, Tolerate, Refuse

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• In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Long, Remembrance

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.564, Race Point Pub

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• Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he harvest all the available millions. But the way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming.

  Stanley Kauffmann

  Mean, Way, Fiction

  Stanley Kauffmann (2001). “Regarding Film: Criticism and Comment”, Performing Arts Journal Books

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