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• Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies.

  Sharon Kay Penman

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Sharon Kay Penman (2002). “Time and Chance”, p.291, Penguin

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• We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sunset, Fire, Water

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• It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146

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• Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
  With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
  Steel-true and blade-straight,
  The great artificer made my mate.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Eye, Poetry, Gold

  'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'My Wife'

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• Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming!

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Memories, Heart, Unforgettable

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• The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at work. First, the picture itself is sharp and vivid, with crisp action that never smears the screen is noticeably brighter than on previous iPods. Second, because the audio is piped directly into your ear sockets, it has much higher fidelity and presence than most peoples TV sets. Finally, remember that a 2.5-inch screen a foot from your face fills as much of your vision as a much larger screen thats across the room.

  David Pogue

  Ipods, Feet, Vision

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• You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Law, People, Effects

  Mark Twain, Bernard L. Stein (1983). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.346, Univ of California Press

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• A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Depth, Paint

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2781, Delphi Classics

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• Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

  Rolf Potts

  Attitude, People, Friendly

  Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• If the bible were published as fiction, no reviewer would give it a passing grade. There are some vivid scenes and quotable phrases but there's no plot, no structure, a tremendous amount of filler and the characters are painfully one dimensional. Whatever you do, don't read the bible for a moral code. It advocates prejudice, cruelty, superstition and murder. Read it because we need more atheists.

  Penn Jillette

  Atheist, Character, Giving

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

  Joanne Woodward

  Christmas, Giving Up, Next

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• Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.

  Chris Kilham

  Ayahuasca, Medicine, Ego

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• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Ambition, Errors

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• Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times. But the Kennedy tale-the spiral compound of glory, achievement, degradation and almost mythical tragedy-exerts a fascination upon us that goes beyond their public achievements.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Family, Powerful, Impact

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• A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

  Ernst Mach

  Different, Movement, Enough

  Ernst Mach (1996). “The analysis of sensations”

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• Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Men, Age, Reason

  Giacomo Leopardi (1987). “Leopardi: Poems and Prose”, Praeger Pub Text

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• A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring.

  Lubov Azria

  Spring, Color, Perfect

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• I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.

  Will Packer

  Dream, Color, Sky

  "Will Packer Talks Universal Television Deal, ‘Think Like A Man Too,’ & Trayvon Martin". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.

  Melissa Bank

  Reading, Writing, Perfect

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, College, Years

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can win a man's heart one day and lose it the next. But when we break a proud spirit we achieve something that is final and absolute.

  Eric Hoffer

  Heart, Winning, Power

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• I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles.

  Laurel Burch

  Jewels, Color, Wind

  "Marin County artist Laurel Burch dead at 61 of rare bone disease" by Heather Maddan, www.sfgate.com. September 23, 2007.

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• A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a singular mix of imagination, compassion, and scientific understanding; he is equally gifted at spinning fantastic tales as he is at bringing genetic histories to vivid life.

  Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

  Block, Compassion, Illumination

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• To read 'Happy Talk' is to crash a party as vivid and surreal as Felini's 8. It's the business of show business, the American dream, told by a chorus of Americans locked just outside of that dream, outside of the United States, relegated to expatriate status on the shores of Haiti. Melo paints a version of Haiti that's an interior landscape perhaps even more than an externalized place. This Haiti is a plan, a memory, a morphine-drip fueled dream out to bond its inhabitants forever.

  Monica Drake

  Dream, Memories, Party

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