"See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life."
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"I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes."
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"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
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"[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
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"I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out."
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"America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up."
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"I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them."
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"If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience."
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"Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst."
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"The hand that holds the money cracks the whip."
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"In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke."
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"Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways."
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"I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks."
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"For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive."
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"Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?"
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"And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That makes ingrateful man!"
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"Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still."
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"Talents differ; all is well and wisely put; If I cannot carry forests on my back, Neither can you crack a nut."
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"Money cannot buy you happiness, and happiness cannot buy you money. That might be a wise crack, but I doubt it."
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"Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in."
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