Anne Lamott
Author, Essayist
"Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is."
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Cracked
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Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"Life cracked like ice!"
J. R. R. Tolkien
Novelist, Scholar
"Thank you, Sam," he said in a cracked whisper. "How far is there to go?" I don't know," said Sam, "because I don't know where we're going."
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Essayist, Writer
"cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!"
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"Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open."
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"Playing well with others isn't all it's cracked up to be."
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"I'm not so sure that the value of art is all it is cracked up to be."
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"Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked."
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"Anything cracked will shatter at a touch."
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