"The fire burns as the novel taught it how."

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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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"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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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

Leonard Rose, American Musician

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"What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality."

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"Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art."

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"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."

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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."

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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

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"It can never be satisfied, the mind, never."

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"The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening."

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