L. Frank Baum
Author
"The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick."
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Bricks
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Paul Simon
Musician, Songwriter
"Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick."
Red Smith
Sportswriter
"Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick."
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"He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."
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"I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick."
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"Fame hit me like a ton of bricks."
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"We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks."
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"To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar."
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"You don’t try to build a wall, you don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say ‘I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s ever been built.’ You don’t start there… You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid.’ And you do that every single day and soon you have a wall."
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"We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day."
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"I grew up in a brick house. What's wrong with bricks? An Englishman took me aside and said, "You have to understand, all the bricklayers in England are Irish, and the English hate the Irish.""
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"What is there of the divine in a load of brick? What ... in a barber shop? ... Much. All."
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"Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses."
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"Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop."
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"The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples — that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."
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"Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style."
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"Eventually, someone is going to pick up a brick."
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"A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him."
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"As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick."
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"Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to."
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"You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist."
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"Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."
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"Writing is still like heaving bricks over a wall."
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