"This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart."
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
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"Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife."
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"Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!"
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"If you're good with a knife, you don't need your eyes."
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"Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."
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"He leans his face close to mine and wraps his fingers around my chin. His hand smells like metal. When was the last time he held a gun, or a knife?"
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"Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives."
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"He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do."
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"So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know."
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"I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife."
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"There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."
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"Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell."
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"You're like a dull knife, it just ain't cutting."
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"Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife."
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"A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife."
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"I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect."
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"A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'."
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"She froze. He reached up and took her hand in his, pulling the knife away, making her drop it on the floor. "Show me how much you hate me," he whispered against her mouth. "Prove it to me."
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"Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it."
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