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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.
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star
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Virginia Woolf |
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In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.
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world
inspirational
star
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C.S. Lewis |
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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
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world
star
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C.S. Lewis |
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Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?
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humor
maxride
ratchet
star
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James Patterson |
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Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don't always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don't wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again.
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wish
star
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Terry Pratchett |
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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.
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star
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Victor Hugo |
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A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after I say something about forms of anxiety. It's as if her mind is having a hard time communicating with her mouth, as if she is searching for a rational analysis of who I am, which is, of course, an impossibility: there... is... no... key.
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mouth
star
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Bret Easton Ellis |
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Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
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star
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Thomas Hardy |
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"I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words
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passion
world
star
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Hermann Hesse |
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What's so funny? (Astrid) I'm just thinking, here I am a slave who touched a star who then made him a demigod. I have to be the luckiest bastard who ever lived. (Zarek)
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love
star
luck
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Sherrilyn Kenyon |
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The dead appear to us in dreams because that's the only way they can make us see them; what we see is only a projection, beamed from a great distance, light shining at us from a dead star...
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dreams
star
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Donna Tartt |
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"When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement,
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loss
death
my-sisters-keeper
submergence
star
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D. H. Lawrence |
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My whole life I though I was the star of an overly earnest romance movie, and it turns out I was in a goddamned buddy comedy all along.
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romance
life
comedy
romance-movie
star
film
movie
movies
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John Green |
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Haven't you got any romance in your soul?' said Magrat plaintively. 'No,' said Granny. 'I ain't. And stars don't care what you wish, and magic don't make things better, and no one doesn't get burned who sticks their hand in a fire. If you want to amount to anything as a witch, Magrat Garlick, you got to learn three things. What's real, what's not real, and what's the difference.
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magic
romance
magrat
wish
star
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Terry Pratchett |
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In the meantime, I'll wish it upon a star.'- Michael Cooper
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hope
love
wish
star
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Julie Ann Knudsen |
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For there was nothing in his eyes but the black night and the cold stars.
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stars
morpheus
sandman
neil-gaiman
star
cold
night
eyes
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Susanna Clarke |
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She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.
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lover
death
star
friend
moment
shooting
hell
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John Scalzi |
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The photograph is in my hand. It is the photograph of a man and a woman. They are at an amusement park, in 1959. In twelve seconds time, I drop the photograph to the sand at my feet, walking away. It's already lying there, twelve seconds into the future. Ten seconds now. The photograph is in my hand. I found it in a derelict bar at the gila flats test base, twenty-seven hours ago. It's still there, twenty-seven hours into the past, in its frame, in the darkened bar. I'm still there, looking at it. The photograph is in my hand. The woman takes a piece of popcorn between thumb and forefinger. The ferris wheel pauses. Seven seconds now. It's October, 1985. I'm on Mars. It's July, 1959. I'm in New Jersey, at the Palisades Amusement Park. Four seconds, three. I'm tired of looking at the photograph now. I open my fingers. It falls to the sand at my feet. I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away. And their light takes so long to reach us... All we ever see of stars are their old photohraphs.
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time
old
star
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Alan Moore |
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"... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free life. I sees every fall into ignorance and confusion as an opportunity to discover that the beast residing at the center of the labyrinth is also an angel. To approach this paradoxial point of tension where adjustment and abnormality meet is to move closer to the realization of our mystery-filled, star-born nature. It is a beast this thing that stirs in the core of our being, but it is also the star of our innermost nature.
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care
star
soul
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Thomas Moore |
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I saw it from that hidden, silent place Where the old wood half shuts the meadow in. It shone through all the sunset's glories - thin At first, but with a slowly brightening face. Night came, and that lone beacon, amber-hued, Beat on my sight as never it did of old; The evening star - but grown a thousandfold More haunting in this hush and solitude. It traced strange pictures on the quivering air - Half-memories that had always filled my eyes - Vast towers and gardens; curious seas and skies Of some dim life - I never could tell where. But I knew that through the cosmic dome Those rays were calling from my far, lost home.
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poetry
lovecraft
star
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H.P. Lovecraft |
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"It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")"
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star
omen
threat
ominous
night
evil
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Cornell Woolrich |
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My attention was quickly riveted by a large red star close to the distant horizon. As I gazed upon it I felt a spell of overpowering fascination--it was Mars, the god of war, and for me, the fighting man, it had always held the power of irresistible enchantment. As I gazed at it on that far-gone night it seemed to call across the unthinkable void, to lure me to it, to draw me as the lodestone attracts a particle of iron.
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lodestone
red
star
mars
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Edgar Rice Burroughs |
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It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.
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family
life
love
shopaholic
hollywood
star
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Sophie Kinsella |
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Attention, Kmart shoppers! Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages! You've all looked up at the night sky and seen the sparkle of millions of silver stars, wondering no doubt what it's like to be one of them... well, tonight here in glorious Ocean City, the silver light will shine in your eyes, because we all have a little magic, every one of us, and you're about to witness it up close, in the amazing abilities of some of the best magicians this side of North America!
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magic
optimism
announcement
kmart
magician-ocean-city
silver
star
celebration
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Rebecca McNutt |