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Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re...

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Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal...

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A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he...

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all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair o...

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She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

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all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish t...

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Charles BukowskiWhat Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like ...

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Charles DickensThe Old Curiosity Shop

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I ...

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A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled...

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In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in a...

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But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments...

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As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been befor...

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The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run...

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A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering again...

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He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starl...

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It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The...

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The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as i...

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Cormac McCarthyBlood Meridian

I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's t...

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Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could d...

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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slope...

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- because just by hating it’s possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire....

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Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now: Selected Stories

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss light...

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Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

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I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there wer...

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Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sop...

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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered s...

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We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthous...

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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my hone...

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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is...

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For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to ex...

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I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...

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As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - ...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...

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Emma ThompsonThe Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

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Erich Maria RemarqueAll Quiet on the Western Front

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were contin...

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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man s...

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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...

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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money...

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There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

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Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are b...

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There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...

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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as...

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The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the nig...

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A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the w...

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George R. R. MartinA Clash of Kings

Ice can kill as dead as fire.

What fire joins none man can put aside,

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

Dragons are fire made flesh.

The fire that burns against the cold.

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George R. R. MartinA Storm of Swords

Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play,

Life is warmth and warmth is fire, and fire is God's and God's alone.

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George R. R. MartinA Storm of Swords

Surely the Gods did not bring me safe through fire and sea only to kill me with a flux.

Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I ...

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What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not n...

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You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creat...

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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is li...

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We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and p...

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Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so)...

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I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.”“Just though...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a hous...

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God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into ...

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You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.

Only a crazy person wouldn't fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop...

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writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think ...

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I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need i...

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I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on e...

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If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked t...

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The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kil...

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Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has ...

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I know you haven't burned down any buildings in a while," she said, "but if you start feeling the ne...

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When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

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Jodi PicoultBetween the Lines

Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...

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Stars are fires that burn for thousands of years. Some of them burn slow and long, like red dwarfs. ...

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A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you ca...

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Jodi PicoultMy Sister's Keeper

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable bless...

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The Incas were right to worship the sun, Father. God is fire. Combustion is the one inarguable bless...

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Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the s...

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You can’t burn down a made-up place.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures th...

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AH the fat's in the fire.

Jimmy: One day, when I'm no longer spending my days running a sweet-stall, I may write a book about ...

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And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the trut...

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I was sprawled out in my usual position on the couch, half asleep but entirely drunk, torturing myse...

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