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Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
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simile
music
song
love
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Nicholas Sparks |
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Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. For ancient king and elvish lord There many a gleaming golden hoard They shaped and wrought, and light they caught To hide in gems on hilt of sword. On silver necklaces they strung The flowering stars, on crowns they hung The dragon-fire, in twisted wire They meshed the light of moon and sun. Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To claim our long-forgotten gold. Goblets they carved there for themselves And harps of gold; where no man delves There lay they long, and many a song Was sung unheard by men or elves. The pines were roaring on the height, The wind was moaning in the night. The fire was red, it flaming spread; The trees like torches blazed with light. The bells were ringing in the dale And men looked up with faces pale; The dragon's ire more fierce than fire Laid low their towers and houses frail. The mountain smoked beneath the moon; The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom. They fled their hall to dying fall Beneath his feet, beneath the moon. Far over the misty mountains grim To dungeons deep and caverns dim We must away, ere break of day, To win our harps and gold from him!
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poetry
song
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
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song-writing
taylor-swift
people
song
humor
inspirational
bullying
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Taylor Swift |
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There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.
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song
forever-and-a-day
when-broken-is-easily-fixed
silverstein
lyrics
music-lyrics
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Shel Silverstein |
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The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
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war
song
irish
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G.K. Chesterton |
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I close my eye
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bieber
song
inspirational
justin
pray
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Justin Bieber |
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To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!
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poetry
song
legolas
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J. R. R. Tolkien |
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Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song..
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grief
song
phoenix-lament
terrible
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J.K. Rowling |
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"Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back." -Plato"
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song
love
philosiphy
plato
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Jessica Clare |
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Above all shadows rides the Sun and Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, nor bid the Stars farewell.
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song
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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I will never hurt you. I will always help you. If you are hungry Ill give you my food. If you are frightened I am your friend. I love you now. And love does not end.
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poem
song
tender
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Orson Scott Card |
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Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.
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song
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Peter S. Beagle |
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"In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide,
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song
life
friend
ocean
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Bob Marley |
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What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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poem
song
life
homage
walt-whitman
reflection
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Walt Whitman |
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A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.
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care
darkness
music
song
songs
life
love
inspirational
lyrics
caring
smile
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Ransom Riggs |
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"Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep,
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tolkien
song
hobbit
dwarves
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!
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loss
song
entwives
longing
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
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song
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Frank Herbert |
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Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.
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music
song
songwriting
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Jimmy Buffett |
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"Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance!
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lover
present
dance
live
spirituality
music
song
spiritual
life
love
inspirational
sing
awareness-quotes
be
become
let-go
conscious
consciousness-quotes
consciousness
feet
enjoy
yourself
khayyam
harmony
letting-go-quotes
living-in-the-now
moment
saadi
kamand
kamand-kojouri
kojouri
sufi
rumi
hafiz
hafez
awareness
surrender
forget
voice
beloved
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Kamand Kojouri |
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A good river is nature's life work in song.
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song
river
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Mark Helprin |
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"How many victims must that be? Slaughtered in vain across the land, And how many strugles must that be? Before we choose to live the profits plan Everybody sing- Every day create your History, Every path you take you're leaving your legacy
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music
song
michael-jackson
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Michael Jackson |
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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.
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hopelessness
music
song
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Victor Hugo |
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"Let's swim to the moon Let's climb through the tide
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song
moon
tides
water
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Jim Morrison |
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Sing, then. Sing, indeed, with shoulders back, and head up so that song might go to the roof and beyond to the sky. Mass on mass of tone, with a hard edge, and rich with quality, every single note a carpet of colour woven from basso profundo, and basso, and baritone, and alto, and tenor, and soprano, and also mezzo, and contralto, singing and singing, until life and all things living are become a song. O, Voice of Man, organ of most lovely might.
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living
song
choirs
singing
sing
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Richard Llewellyn |
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He looked at the houses he had been passing these weeks and though he had never studied them carefully they had become familiar through the process of seeing them so often, and he was now impressed with the change in their appearance as he looked at them through the gray of the air and whiteness of the snow, each house, shrub, tree, bush and mailbox trimmed with snow and blending into the air as if they were just a picture projected upon the still, pearly grayness, just an impression created by the silent snow, a picture on the edge and verge of disappearing and leaving only the air and snow through which he now lightly walked. It did not seem possible, but the air was even softer and quieter. He continued walking alongside his prints feeling he could walk forever, that as long as the silent snow continued falling he could continue walking, and as he did he would leave behind all worries and cares, all horrors of the past and future. There would be nothing to bother him or torture his mind and fill his body with tremors of fear, the dark night of the soul over. There would only be himself and the soft, silent snow; and each flake, in its own life, its own separate and distinct entity, would bring with it its own joy, and he would easily partake of that joy as he continued walking, the gentle, silent snow falling ever so quietly, ever so joyously ... yes, and ever so love-ing-ly ... loveing-ly....
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solitude
silence
song
snow
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Hubert Selby Jr. |
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"There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life," said Spider. "These things are wine, women and song"... "Curry's nice too" pointed out Fat Charlie"
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women
song
nice
wine
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Neil Gaiman |
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Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
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music
song
cuckoo
water-ousel
owl
waterfall
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Karen Joy Fowler |
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Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty.
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light
darkness
song
phoenix
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J.K. Rowling |
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I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin
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funny
song
calvin
calvin-and-hobbes
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Bill Watterson |
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Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.
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story
writing
music
song
motivational
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
advertisement
album
alliterations
amit-kalantri
amit-kalantri-quotes
amit-kalantri-writer
background-music
background-score
band
catch-lines
catchphrases
concert
drums
michael-jackson
movie-dialogue
music-director
music-industry
music-quotes
musicians
playing
pop
script-writing
scriptwriting
speechwriting
tag-lines
vocal
singer
book-writing
essay
script
instruments
sound
proverbs
rock
creative-writing
rhetoric
guitar
singing
novel-writing
movie
public-speaking
quotes
tune
movies
melody
characters
knowledge
speech
artist
soul
touch
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Amit Kalantri |
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Gilded palace of Flying Burritos Excellent Nouveau Mexican Cuisine We all got to wear Swank-Ass Nudie Suits I should have known it was a lousy pipe dream Ohhh, Ohhh, what an awesome job Ohhh, Ohhh, what do I do now?? Ohh, Ohhhhh, it's like I've been robbed Spent the last of my paycheque And I'm feelin' pretty downnnnn!!
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song
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Bryan Lee O'Malley |
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Her voice was caught in the shell of my ear, as if it were the ocean.
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song
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Jodi Picoult |
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Lords of melody and song, Lords of roses burning bright, Blue will right the ancient wrong, Though the way is dark and long, Blue will shine with loving light.
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wrong
song
roses
melody
right
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.
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song
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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And so the Wolf of the West rose from the stone! And so he will rise again if ever the folk of the Six Duchies call to him in need.
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song
hap
wolf-of-the-west
hunt
nighteyes
fool
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Robin Hobb |
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In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.
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faith
religion
song
food
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Elizabeth Alexander |
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A lark, caught in a hunter's net Sang sweeter then than ever, As if the falling melody Might wing and net dissever At dusk the hunter took his prey, The lark his freedom never. All birds and men are sure to die But songs may live forever.
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death
song
lark
melody
songs-may-live-forever
sad
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Ken Follett |
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Then all the winds of Heaven ran to join hands and bend a shoulder, to bring down to me the sound of a noble hymn that was heavy with the perfume of Time That Has Gone. The glittering multitudes were singing most mightily, and my heart was in blood to hear a Voice that I knew. The Men of the Valley were marching again. My Fathers were singing up there. Loud, triumphant, the anthem rose, and I knew, in some deep place within, that in the royal music was a prayer to lift up my spirit, to be of good cheer, to keep the faith, that Death was only an end to the things that are made of clay, and to fight, without heed of wounds, all that brings death to the Spirit, with Glory to the Eternal Father, forever, Amen.
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|
fathers
spirit
music
song
glory
eternal-father
voices
singing
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Richard Llewellyn |
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It's a lost and lonely kind of feeling, To wake up wearing a disguise. I lie in bed staring at the ceiling, I don't know who I am There's little that I can Fully recognize.... But I'm taking small steps, 'Cause I don't know where I'm going. I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together, And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way.... Just to make it through the day and not to get hurt, Seems about the best that I can hope. Like coffee stains splattered on your sweatshirt There isn't any pattern. Everything's uncertain. It's difficult to cope.... But I'm taking small steps, 'Cause I don't know where I'm going. I'm taking small steps, And I've forgotten how to play. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together, And maybe I'll discover, A clue along the way.... And if someday my small steps bring me near you, Please don't rush to tell me all you feel. You don't have to speak for me to hear you. If I softly sigh, Look me in the eye And let me know I'm real.... Then we'll take small steps, 'Cause we won't know where we're going. We'll take small steps, And we'll have too much to say. Small steps, Hand in hand we'll walk together, And maybe we'll discover A clue along the way.... Small steps, 'Cause I don't know where I'm goin'. Small steps, I just take it day to day. Small steps, Somehow get myself together, Then maybe I'll discover Who I am on the way....
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song
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Louis Sachar |
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Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB-- 'Taking Care of Business'-- sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.
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science
song
humor
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Mary Roach |
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The great error consists in supposing that poetry is an unnatural form of language. We should all like to speak poetry at the moment when we truly live, and if we do not speak it, it is because we have an impediment in our speech. It is not song that is the narrow or artificial thing, it is conversation that is a broken and stammering attempt at song. When we see men in a spiritual extravaganza, like Cyrano de Bergerac, speaking in rhyme, it is not our language disguised or distorted, but our language rounded and made whole.
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song
prose
speech
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G.K. Chesterton |
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"She shakily rushed towards the car to find Alecto casually standing beside it, smoking a cigarette and staring fixedly on the radio as it played the song 'Draggin' the Line' by Tommy James, his expression thoughtful. "What are you thinking about?" Mandy questioned. "Wouldn't the world be a very loud place to live if we said everything we thought?" Alecto asked quietly."
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live
mind
world
music
song
dragging
tommy-james
noisy
cigarette
line
place
quiet
radio
thinking
question
loud
noise
thought
smoking
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Rebecca McNutt |
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Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.
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honesty
song
truth
speak
exist
gap
lack
omission
starling
lie
guilty
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Robin Hobb |
b436c9f
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Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.
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lover
song
angel-of-death
black-blood
saint
maya
spirtualism
sita
christopher-pike
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Christopher Pike |
6f2a083
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Wedding song (reprise) But you and I, through burning plains, through darkness of the earth, affirm the world, its people, the heavens that gave them birth, the breath that passes between us, this new home where we stand, and all those things made larger by the vows between woman and man.
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song
dragonlance
majere
michael-williams
wedding-vows
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Margaret Weis |
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For he had never heard anything like it--did not know such music existed in the world--and it was hard to believe that a man he knew could play it with his own two hands. There were parts of it like birdsong, and parts like rolling thunder and hard rain, and parts that glittered like fresh snow when the sun comes out and it's so cold the air takes your breath away. And parts were like a dust devil spinning past, or a cyclone on the horizon, and all of it cried out for words that he had only read in books and had never said aloud.
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song
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Mary Doria Russell |
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Every song may be someone's personal implement of torture.
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song
noise
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Francine Prose |
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Ravaged all, Bogo tabal Timore toron Totoo now gone...
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loss
song
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Lois Lowry |
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He knew how to construct a song out of the nothing of day-to-day life and how to sing that nothing into a song so beautiful that it could sustain the vision of a whole and better world.
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song
sing
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Kate DiCamillo |