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“I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.”

People Matter Eye Sleep Taken Fingers Partners Burned Caves Damnation Hermits

Book:The Door Into Summer

Source: The Door Into Summer

“Martha Stewart showed up at Manhattan FBI Headquarters to have her finger prints taken and pose for a mug shot. Then Martha explained how to get ink off your fingers using seltzer water and lemon juice.”

Water Taken Shots Fingers Print Ink Juice Fbi Manhattan Lemons Mug Headquarters Lemon Juice

Author:Conan O'Brien

“When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you.”

Ifs Use Hands Used Felt Taken Cutting Fingers Away From You

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.”

Grows Company Taken Tables Wine Aging Fingers Edges Mortals Food And Wine Gifts Of Life

Book:Three kingdoms

Source: Three kingdoms

“Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.”

Hard Action Taken Universal Fingers Rings Poetry Is Covered Chests Household Emergencies Mixtures Vary Bittersweet Narcotics Stimulants

Author:Robert Graves

“I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.”

Made Together Lasts Morning Sun Gone Taken Sky Summer Wings Fingers Flight Aviation Last Time Farewell Coming Back Vibrations Docile Supple Meticulous Raf

Author:Pierre Clostermann

“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second, or one sixteenth, or one one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth. Snap your fingers; a snapshot's faster.”

Decision Moral Taken Hundred Twenties Fingers Photograph Faster Snaps Snapshots Moral Decisions

Book:The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

Source: The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel

“A religious belief is not a statement about Reality, but a hint, a clue about something that is a mystery, beyond the grasp of human thought. In short, a religious belief is only a finger pointing to the moon. Some religious people never get beyond the study of the finger. Others are engaged in sucking it. Others yet use the finger to gouge their eyes out. These are the bigots whom religion has made blind. Rare indeed is the religionist who is sufficiently detached from the finger to see what it is indicating - these are those who, having gone beyond belief, are taken for blasphemers.”