"The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility."

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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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"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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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

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"In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other."

Bill Pascrell, American Politician

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"Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water."

Fernand Leger, French Artist

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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

Dinah Shore, American Actress

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"Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record."

Ronnie Montrose, American Musician

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