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for when things I read amaze me

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...like little flowers in my bloodstream - fish hooks that still catch on soft tissue as my blood makes its way to and from my heart...

"Mother Mary Comes To Me" - Arundhati Roy

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"When small men cast big shadows, you know the sun is setting."

I'm sure this is an actual saying, but I heard it from Milo Rossi in the Two Sphinxes video (yt: miniminuteman)

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(...) who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with our lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own. Who is to say we should obey the laws they make for their own interest and to our hurt? And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests?

"The Godfather" - Mario Puzo

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The desire to become a member of society always overpowers the shame of being embraced by their system.

"Walking Practice" - Dolki Min

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The sunlight is melting and dripping from the branches like raindrops.

"Walking Practice" - Dolki Min

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(...)the respect he had extorted(...)

"The Godfather" - Mario Puzo

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In the shadows was the empty bandstand, out of it grew the skeleton metal stalk of a microphone.

"The Godfather" - Mario Puzo

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(...) the [homophobic] broadcast is over and some Christian music starts playing (...). [He] changes the channel, like he’s not interested anymore.

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Downstairs, the cold hits like a memory.

- about someone with cold related trauma walking into an unheated basement (no power). (he's also alone, and lonely)

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The night unfolds in flickers and shadows.

- about when the power has gone out, and they're using candles

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Because I had given he seemed to think that I still must give, and to him only.

"The Adventure Of The Three Gables" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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அழைப்பாயா அழைப்பாயா

தவறாமல் அழைப்பாயா

தவறாக அழைத்தாலே

அது போதுமே அழைப்பாயா

"Azhaipaya azhaipaya" from "Kadhalil Sodhapuvadhu Yeppadi"

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I wonder how a battery feels when it pours electricity into a non-conductor?

"The Adventure Of The Dying Detective" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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The feature which I had admired a few minutes before were now like some beautiful painting over which the artist has passed a wet and foul sponge. They were blurred, discoloured, inhuman, terrible.

"Murderous Attack Upon Sherlock Holmes" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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It is said that the barrister who crams up a case with such care that he can examine an expert witness upon the Monday has forgotten all his forced knowledge before the Saturday.

"Murderous Attack Upon Sherlock Holmes" - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle