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• I am not a violent person. I am a product of the Flower Power '60s. I have actually worn bell-bottomed jeans.

  Dave Barry

  Flower, Jeans, Bells

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• I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Taken, Hands

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.218, Penguin

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• I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Names, Stargirl, Shirts

  Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.45, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Eye, Sky, Silence

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2014). “The Book of Images”, p.5, North Point Press

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• I think certain movies are right for 3D. I think certain movies are not right for 3D. And I think the specialness of 3D will be worn off if every movie becomes 3D.

  Neal H. Moritz

  Thinking, Certain, Specialness

  Source: collider.com

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• Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it - Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Struggle, Dark

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter VII, 1953.

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• Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty.

  Isaac Asimov

  Wind, People, World

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.130, Spectra

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• The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Clothes, Political

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.101, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.

  Martin Amis

  Writing, Eye, People

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• When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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• I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

  Robert E. Howard

  Past, Cloaks, Worn Out

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “The Hour of the Dragon: American modern Literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

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• A bear remains a bear - even when most of him has fallen off or worn away.

  Charlotte Gray

  Bears, Teddy Bear, Fallen

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• Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.

  Bessie Head

  Home, Skins, Earth

  1989 Tales of Tenderness and Power.

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• The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.

  Mario Savio

  Mean, Years, Games

  "An End To History". Humanity magazine, www.historyisaweapon.com. December 1964.

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• I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption.

  Haruki Murakami

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.

  Robert Greene

  Sovereign, Would Be, Thorns

  Robert Greene, “Fawnia”

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• My ancient history teacher, Millie Lloyd, should have worn a medal for her performance at the battle of Thermopylae. She was excited and we were excited.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, Should Have, Battle

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• The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

  George Eliot

  Lying, Eye, Artist

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.73

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• Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Tired, Recovery

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.184, 1st World Publishing

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• I like hair that's been 'worn in' because it's much easier to deal with.... I actually don't like it when [models] come in with this beautiful, thick, glossy hair. I think, Oh, no! I can't do a thing with this!

  Guido Palau

  Beautiful, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Can man be so age-stricken that no faintest sunshine of his youth may re visit him once a year? It is impossible. The moss on our time-worn mansion brightens into beauty; and the good old pastor, who once dwelt here, renewed his prime and regained his boyhood in the genial breeze of his ninetieth spring. Alas for the worn and heavy soul, if, whether in youth or age, it has outlived its privilege of springtime sprightliness!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spring, Sunshine, Men

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.833, Library of America

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• Love is a worn-out word. People love their cat, they love their house. I've never been in love with anyone but myself.

  Hermione Gingold

  Cat, Love Is, People

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• The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Two, Clothes, Imagination

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

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• Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

  Joanna Baillie

  Men, Years, One Day

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.413

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• What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Fashion, What If, Warm Heart

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