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• Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.

  Anthony Boucher

  Long, Sobriety, Masters

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• I understand that each one of us works at a different speed, and has a slightly different process. I understand that these writers are painstaking, wanting each sentence-each word-to carry weight... I know it’s not laziness, but respect for the work, and I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

  Stephen King

  Life Is Short, Haste Makes Waste, Years

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• I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

  Stephen King

  Haste Makes Waste, Years, Play

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• Basal Ganglia casts an unsettling spell, but one that in its aphoristic intensity and lightning-flash insights into human loneliness and connection, achieves a genuine empathic wisdom.

  Sergio De La Pava

  Loneliness, Lightning, Connections

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• I fell in love with scent when I was a small boy.
  I was intrigued by how each bottle on my mother's dressing table
  gave such a different scent-each like a genie waving its spell,
  transporting us away from the mundane to worlds full of fantasy.

  Paloma Roja

  Mother, Boys, Different

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• When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

  Cristela Alonzo

  Names, People, Liberty

  "Five Things to Know About ABC's 'Cristela'" by Bryn Elise Sandberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2014.

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• All my spells smell like burnt hair lately.

  Jaya

  Hair, Smell

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• The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Kings, Government, Long

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1982). “Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy, Revolution, and Society”, p.230, University of Chicago Press

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• La prisión es un castigo severo y terrible; pero para mí, gracias a Arthur Balfour, no fue así. A mi llegada me alegró mucho el guardián de la puerta, que tuvo que tomar datos sobre mí. Me preguntó mi religión y le contesté que era agnóstico. Me preguntó cómo se deletreaba y comentó con un suspiro: "Bueno, hay muchas religiones, pero supongo que todas adoran al mismo Dios". Este comentario me mantuvo alegre durante una semana.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• If you can make a little painting for the ears with a few words, well, I like words; I like cutting them up and finding different ways of saying the same thing... I get into a spell, and it all comes easy. I don't labor over it. I go inside the song, I think you make yourself an antenna for songs, and songs want to be around you. And then they bring other songs along, and then they're all sitting around, and they're drinkin' your beer, and they're sleeping on the floor. And they are using the phone, they're rude, thankless little f---ers.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Drinking, Sleep

  "Waits In Wonderland". Image Magazine Interview with Rip Rense, December 13, 1992.

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• A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory.

  John Quincy Adams

  Writing, Men, Names

  "Rocking the Vote, in the 1820s and Now" by Jon Meacham, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

  David Mamet

  Hate, Mail, Computer

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• I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Way, Contempt, One Way

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• El hecho es que la purificación y la austeridad son aún más necesarias para apreciar la vida y la risa que para cualquier otra cosa. Para que ningún pájaro pase desapercibido, para hechizar las piedras y las malas hierbas, para que la mente sea un almacén de ocasos, se requiere una disciplina en el placer y una educación en la gratitud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Weed, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.

  Brian Christian

  Writing, Fighting, Swimming

  "The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive". Book by Brian Christian, 2010.

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• Es una cualidad mística de la música, que no es realmente concreta y comunica abstracciones sobre mundos imaginarios. Al menos, mi música es así. No es real. Es irreal, es pura invención. Escribir una canción sobre Obama rompería de golpe el hechizo.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Canción, Real, Escritura

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• I love looking at sculpture, but there's some sort of spell that's broken with it.

  Joe Bradley

  Broken, Sculpture

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

  Michael Cera

  Baseball, Player, Actors

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.

  Nicholas Royle

  Short Love, Stories, Fantastic

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• You try to hold on to some notions you might have had before, that this will somehow work out, this is a spell that will lift or be broken.

  Ron Suskind

  Broken, Work Out, Trying

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the who, what, where, why, and how much.

  Paula Nelson

  Planning, Best Business, Straightforward

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• Many of us have to spell words such as "out," "cookie," and "bath" when conversing with other people, lest we unnecessarily excite our pets. And even then they often understand. I've actually had clients who resorted to using a second language around their dogs, but after a while their perceptive pooches caught on. Who says dogs don't understand us?

  Warren Eckstein

  Dog, People, Pet

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• I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it or fight but also remind myself that it's mostly just people who can't spell who say mean things.

  Rose McGowan

  Mean, Fighting, People

  "Entrevista exclusiva: Rose McGowan: La agitadora". Entrevista con Laura Dawn, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is also important to respect the fact that Iran is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which treaty spells out the rights and obligations of signatures to the treaty and therefore that we can’t deny Iran the rights due to it as a signature of the NPT.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Rights, Iran, Proliferation Treaty

  Interview with Lionel Barber, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Apparently, the people in the [George W.] Bush administration who wanted to confront me on this could not spell my name correctly. They wanted to send a series of emails thinking that perhaps MSNBC was perhaps favorable to the Bush administration. They thought that they could send me a series of questions or talking points to disprove Joe Wilson with.

  Keith Olbermann

  Thinking, Talking, Names

  Fuente: www.wbur.org

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