Knife Quotes
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Every footfall, every voice was Don Achille creeping up behind us or coming down toward us with a long knife, the kind used for slicing open a chicken breast. There was an odor of sautéing garlic. Maria, Don Achille’s wife, would put me in the pan of boiling oil, the children would eat me, he would suck my head the way my father did with mullets.
Elena Ferrante
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.
Charles Dickens
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A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error.
Rene Daumal
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A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story’s beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.
Ansen Dibell
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To choose and be so adamant about this exact location just a block or two away from 9/11, again is that knife, it feels like.
Sarah Palin
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War, war is still the cry,-"war even to the knife!"
Lord Byron
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Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?
Lewis Carroll
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of reality--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.
Albert Camus
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Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.
Marcel Proust
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Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.
Lao Tzu
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The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
Arman
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Sometimes, power could change hands as quickly as a knife thrust.
Conn Iggulden
