John F. Kennedy
Politician
"I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds."
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Splinters
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Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"When you chop wood, splinters fly"
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
"Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters."
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"This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on."
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"We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future."
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"Homosexuals are entering the mainstream, because they're becoming as boring and as tedious as any other splinter group."
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"Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly."
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"I think we've come to a kind of splinter period in poetry. These tiny little bright fragments of observation - and not produced under sufficient pressure - some of it's very skillful, but I don't think there's anywhere a discernible major poet in the process of emerging; or if he is, I ain't seen him."
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"I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter."
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"I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town."
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"Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions."
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