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But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.Raymond Carver
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A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim, and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him. Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights, of powder-blasts in the airand carnival delights. Yet still his wife was in despairin a dusty room so dim, for she knew death was a whorenot far from tempting him.Roman Payne
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The word is my weapon. FIRE!Ljupka Cvetanova
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..[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.Jan Struther
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There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.Kirby Larson
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Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire.Criss Jami
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Fireworks can make us both happy and sad. It just depends if we are talking about fireworks in the sky or fireworks with another.Anthony T. Hincks
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Matter, ” Vittoria repeated. “Blossoming out of nothing. An incredible display of subatomic fireworks. A miniature universe springing to life. He proved not only that matter can be created from nothing, but that the Big Bang and Genesis can be explained simply by accepting the presence of an enormous source of energy.”“ You mean God?” Kohler demanded.“ God, Buddha, The Force, Yahweh, the singularity, the unicity point–call it whatever you like–the result is the same. Science and religion support the same truth–pure energy is the father of creation.Dan Brown
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It was the first time! Just because there weren’t fireworks the first time doesn’t mean there will never be fireworks. We’re human; we’re adults; we teach each other; we communicate; fireworks don’t just go off, wham-bang; fireworks evolve! ’ Awestruck by the utter, asinine nonsense of this metaphor, everyone is still. Into the stillness, the ample woman drops the word ‘Wrong.’ Then she says it again. ‘Wrong…I’m talking about science… Pheromones.’ The woman turns to Cornelia. ‘The chemicals in his body call out. The chemicals in your body answer. It either happens or it doesn’t.’ On top of being dumb, Cornelia is dumbfounded. .Unknown
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Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel thread and garlands of metallic filaments that disappear underneath the other ornaments and finery. Shadows follow, joyful, laughing sprites. The tree is rich with potential wVera Nazarian
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The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously–one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space.Sol Luckman
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But Annabeth just smiled and put us in jail. As she was heading back to the front line, she turned and winked. "See you at the fireworks?" She didn't even wait for my answer before darting off into the woods. I looked at Beckendorf. "Did she just..ask me out?" He shrugged, completely disgusted. "Who knows with girls? Give me a haywire dragon, any day." So we sat together and waited while the girls won the game.Rick Riordan
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Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.Tomoko Yamashita
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Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.Kim Lehman
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Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in!. .. Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?Anton Chekhov
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.Neil Armstrong
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Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.James Buchan
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Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.Unknown