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Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has...

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I can't imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in ...

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Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves

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Laura EsquivelLike Water for Chocolate

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen...

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My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. S...

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding un...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Pushing magic toward the candle, I willed it to light. Nothing happened.Irys made a strangled sound ...

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I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wre...

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Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.

[John] watched the flames for a while. "I would have to say that I find God in serving His children....

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Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.

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Mikhail LermontovA Hero of Our Time

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna hav...

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One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...

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You're playing with fire," she warned him."That's how I know I'm alive.

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Neil GaimanUnnatural Creatures

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame,...

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When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being...

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It and Other Stories

In this story of the outside world and the inside world with a fire between, the outside world of li...

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Norman MacleanYoung Men and Fire

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which y...

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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

I do not love you except because I love you;I go from loving to not loving you,From waiting to not w...

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With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

you, my friend, could be the smoke’s daughter,you who may not have known you were born of fire and r...

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

If she was beautiful at rest she was doubly so awake. Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she...

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Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down,"he said."Open your eyes.

And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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And the cavern of fire was enormous, labyrinthine, that received the man. He branched and flamed, gl...

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The Warrior knows that no man is an island.He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on o...

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise;...

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She held out her hand, like a man. He hesitated, then took the hand and shook it. It was very warm. ...

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Peter CareyOscar and Lucinda

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...

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Rabindranath TagoreThe Home and the World

And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The ...

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It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and...

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Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Fire is our first form of technology.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much bet...

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Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hol...

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I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know ...

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Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on ...

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Ah earth you old extinguisher.

Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...

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At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o...

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I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flam...

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I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing e...

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hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...

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I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...

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That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...

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I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol ...

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I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this an...

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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so th...

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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

The dove descending breaks the airWith flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declareThe o...

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The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of a...

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...

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Tennessee WilliamsThe Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $6...

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Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...

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In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...

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Umberto EcoPostscript to the Name of the Rose

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in...

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There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passer...

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There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-...

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The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, c...

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Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it con...

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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...

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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...

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...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the sco...

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William Dalrymple (historian)From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weed...

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William H. GassOmensetter's Luck

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...

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For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

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Wole SoyinkaClimate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World

But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-an...

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Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

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When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...

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The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's...

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O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with...

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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

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In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

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The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a streng...

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Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He...

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Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek