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• If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

  Stephen King

  Kings, Wall, Writing

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

  James Joyce

  Beautiful, Running, Body

  James Joyce (2015). “Dubliners: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.17, 谷月社

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• We are dominated by the relatively small number of persons who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.

  Edward Bernays

  Small Numbers, Mind, Patterns

  "Propaganda". Book by Edward Bernays (p. 37 - 38), 1928.

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• You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

  Keith Richards

  Tape, Done, Stuff

  "'I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues'" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2009.

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• But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Loss, Turtles, Order

  FaceBook post by Mary Gaitskill from Oct 30, 2011

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• Well. There is a psychiatric occurrence we see in men-not often women-where they put all their hopes and dreams onto one person, so intensely that at some point it trips a wire in the brain circuitry, and that causes them to go, in a minute, 180 degrees the other way.

  Emma Forrest

  Dream, Men, Brain

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.169, A&C Black

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• Asking the front wheels of a car to do their normal job of steering while handling more than 170 is like asking a man to wire a plug while juggling. Penguins. While making love. To a beautiful woman while on fire, on stage. In front of the Queen. It's all going to go wrong.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Beautiful, Jobs, Queens

  "Top Gear", July 12, 2009.

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• I've been obsessed with Michael B. Jordan since The Wire. He's so charismatic and talented. It'd be even better—we'd have interracial bisexuality!

  Andrew Garfield

  Jordan, Obsessed, Charismatic

  "Spider-man's Andrew Garfield Wants Mary Jane To Be Male" By Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. July 10, 2013.

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• The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Country, Justice, Diversity

  Gamal Abdel Nasser (1955). “Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution”

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• I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

  Ethan Hawke

  Circles, Forgiving, Tests

  "A-list actors relive shameful audition moments", edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2009.

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• Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Motivation, Inspiration, Simple

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• In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Athlete, Reality, Alcohol

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• To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Law Of Attraction, Mind, Individual

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• There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

  George Orwell

  Knowing, Police, Darkness

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• We’re now recognizing that the mind, which is an energetic field of thought which you can read with EEG wires on your brain or with a new process called magnetoencephalography (MEG), which reads the field without even touching the body. So it basically says that when you’re processing with your brain, you’re broadcasting fields.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Touching, Brain, Mind

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• That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Men, Lunch

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• You can’t have him, okay,” she said from behind the wire barrier. “Mm-hmm,” I whispered. “This is certainly a beautiful neighborhood.” “Yeah, I guess.” “I will scratch those eyes out of your ugly head.

  Darynda Jones

  Beautiful, Eye, Scratches

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.34, Macmillan

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• Our love has been the thread through the labyrinth, the net under the high-wire walker, the only real thing in this strange life of mine that I could ever trust.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Real, Labyrinth, Our Love

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.515, Simon and Schuster

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• Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.

  Aravind Adiga

  Country, Brother, Lying

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• When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

  Chief Seattle

  Talking, Land, Green Hills

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• It's hard to say goodbye for good at any time or any place. It's harder still to say it through a meshed wire. It crisscrossed his face into little diagonals, gave me only little broken-up molecules of it at a time. It stenciled a cold, rigid frame around every kiss.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Goodbye, Kissing, Broken

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• Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber.

  Ugo Betti

  Running, Ideas, Long

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• Neurons that fire together wire together. You can rewire your brain for higher consciousness by focusing on love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fire, Brain, Together

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from May 09, 2011

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• Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

  Leonard Cohen

  Drunk, Bird, Midnight

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.41, Omnibus Press

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