"Reality is a sliding door."
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"Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body."
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"A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked."
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"Excessive taxation . . . will carry reason & reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election."
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"Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility."
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"Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!""
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"If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar."
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"I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.'"
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"Merlin’s beard, Harry, you made me jump,” said Slughorn, stopping dead in his tracks and looking wary. “How did you get out of the castle?” “I think Filch must’ve forgotten to lock the doors,” said Harry cheerfully, and was delighted to see Slughorn scowl."
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"I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch."
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"Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need."
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"The door to a balanced success opens widest on the hinges of hope and encouragement."
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"When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Louder and higher and lower and wider the sound and motion spread, mounting, sinking, darking."
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"Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table."
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"The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself."
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"I have a pacemaker in, but it doesn't work very well, because every time I fart the garage door opens."
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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us."
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"The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical."
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"humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle"
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"But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes."
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