"I pitch like my hair is on fire."
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"Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived."
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"It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments."
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"Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music."
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"Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?"
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"The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes."
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"All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?"
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"Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn."
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"Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it."
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"After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice."
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"Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine."
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"When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of."
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"And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up."
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"A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it."
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"The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher."
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"I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating."
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"The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket."
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"Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins."
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"Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act."
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"You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work."
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