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• And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.

  Randall Jarrell

  Children, Book, Heart

  Randall Jarrell (1956). “Selected Poems”

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• Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

  Harry Graham

  Loss, Thinking, Honor

  Harry Graham (1930). “More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes”

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• If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

  Dean Koontz

  Answers, Weapons, Murder

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.619, Bantam

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• Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Running, Art, Writing

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• When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

  Mireille Enos

  Dad, Car, Littles

  "Mireille Enos Is Killing Us". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. April 15, 2012.

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• The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Pride, Hands

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• La muerte de mi madre afecta permanentemente a mi felicidad, más incluso de lo que hubiera podido prever, aunque siempre supe que al principio sentiría la separación como un severo desgarro. Pero no comprendí, durante su vida, hasta qué punto ella me impedía sentir la soledad del corazón.

  Sara Coleridge

  Mother, Heart, Should Have

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.345

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• A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Despair, Costumes

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• We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists imagined a monkey wrench and the surrealists a crystal cup. That's lost. We know how to read every promise in faces-the latest stage of morphology. The poetry of the billboards lasted twenty years. We are bored in the city, we really have to strain to still discover mysteries on the sidewalk billboards, the latest state of humor and poetry.

  Ivan Chtcheglov

  Years, Cities, Bored

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• ¿Seguro que puedes evitar enamorarte un día de estos? Esas cosas pasan, ya sabes, incluso a los hombres más prudentes". Simon le dirigió una mirada extraña, incluso se podría haber pensado que hostil. Me lo arrancaría del corazón como me arrancaría de la boca un diente podrido.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• Stand Fast Through the Storms of Life. "You will have all kinds of trials to pass through. And it is quite as necessary for you to be tried as it was for Abraham and other men of God... God will feel after you, and He will take hold of you and wrench your very heart strings and if you cannot stand it you will not be fit for an inheritance in the Celestial kingdom of God" -John Taylor recalls the words of Joseph Smith to the Twelve. JS manual page 231

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Men, Storm

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• If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come. He is bound to no one that the world unfold just so upon its course and those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Sueño, Mentira, Visión

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.662, Pan Macmillan

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• I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Sweaters, People, Feelings

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• Steve turned to us again, looking so dang enthusastic that I wondered how much coffee he'd had this morning. "So, you kids want to be big stars, eh?" God, no!" I said spewing crumbs. "No way!" Oddly, this seemed to throw a petite wrench into the convo.

  James Patterson

  Morning, Stars, Coffee

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• Cogió la llave inglesa y le rompió la muñeca al tipo con ella, uno, y luego la otra muñeca, dos, y se volvió e hizo lo mismo con el tipo que había sujetado el martillo, tres, cuatro. Los dos hombres eran las armas de alguien, desplegadas conscientemente, y ningún soldado dejaba en el campo de batalla los artefactos abandonados por el enemigo en buen estado de funcionamiento. La mujer del médico observaba desde la puerta de la cabina, con todo tipo de terror en el rostro. "¿Qué?" le preguntó Reacher.

  Lee Child

  Men, Doctors, Doors

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.337, Delacorte Press

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• Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

  David Eddings

  Trying, Said, Shoulders

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• How do you know it'll be pleasurable?" He got on the bed and lay down. Breath a whisper, she came closer and tied one wrist to the headboard. The cat growled but didn't try to make him wrench free. "Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt." "Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that.

  Nalini Singh

  Baby, Cat, Talking

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.494, Penguin

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• La aceptación es la moneda universal de la verdadera amistad. No deforma ni moldea a una persona para que sea otra cosa que lo que es.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Real, Acceptance, Doe

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• Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in their sorrow and gluttony and foolishness. You need the virtues, too—some sort of virtues—but we don’t care about Emma Bovary or Anna Karenina or Raskolnikov because they’re good. We care about them because they’re not admirable, because they’re us, and because great writers have forgiven them for it.

  Michael Cunningham

  Heart, Sorrow, Needs

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• Siento el impulso, familiar ahora, de arrancarme de mi cuerpo y hablar directamente en su mente. Es el mismo impulso, me doy cuenta, que me hace querer besarla cada vez que la veo, porque incluso una pizca de distancia entre nosotros es exasperante. Nuestros dedos, entrelazados hace un momento, se aprietan ahora, su palma pegajosa por la humedad, la mía áspera en lugares donde he agarrado demasiados asideros en demasiados trenes en marcha. Ahora está pálida y pequeña, pero sus ojos me hacen pensar en cielos abiertos que nunca he visto, sólo soñado.

  Veronica Roth

  Distance, Moving, Eye

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• Puedo aventurarme a decir, vagamente, que en el Judo hay una especie de contra para cada giro, llave, tirón, empujón o flexión. Sólo que el experto en judo no se opone en absoluto a tales movimientos. No, cede ante ellos. Pero hace mucho más que ceder ante ellos. Los ayuda con una malvada astucia que hace que el agresor se destroce el hombro, se fracture el brazo o, en un caso desesperado, incluso se rompa el cuello o la espalda.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Yield, Wicked, Experts

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• A commercial civilization is money-oriented, profit-oriented. Commercial values always tend to wrench a society free of tradition.Economics from education to public service is being reorganized on the self-destructive basis of self-interest.

  John Ralston Saul

  Self, Civilization, Tradition

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• I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

  Henry George

  Home, School, Thinking

  "Beyond the Looking Glass". Book by Colin Gordon (p. 29), 1982.

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• Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• Dentro de una corporación capitalista, alguien dice: "Préstame una llave inglesa", y alguien pregunta: "Sí, ¿qué me das?". Asumes que la idea de cada uno según sus capacidades, cada uno según sus necesidades - a la hora de resolver un problema - es en realidad lo único que funciona. Y en situaciones de catástrofe, suele haber nociones comunistas de improvisación, en las que básicamente intercambias jerarquías y de repente todas esas cosas que son lujos que no te puedes permitir, las tienes en una emergencia.

  David Graeber

  Ideas, Luxury, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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