"Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations."
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"If you walk on snow you cannot hide your footprints."
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"Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again."
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"The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke."
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"Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear."
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"The silence of snow, thought the man sitting just behind the bus driver."
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"The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go."
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"Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow"
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"Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know"
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"For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance."
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"Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow."
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"A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is."
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"Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze..., Grant me, Oh Lord, a sunny mind- Thy windy will to bear!"
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"This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---"
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"Not yesterday I learned to know The love of bare November days Before the coming of the snow."
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"Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays."
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"We will fight a battle, and then we will rest. Alive or dead, we'll rest." - Jon Snow"
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"And the poorest twig on the elm-tree was ridged inch deep with pearl."
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"Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow."
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"It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing."
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