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

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

Michael Grant, American Author

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

George Eliot, British Author

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"And everything burned in blue, everything a star."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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"I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion."

Roger Clemens, American Athlete

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"And everything burned in blue, everything a star."

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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

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"Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity."

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"The function of posterity is to look after itself."

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