Burning Quotes
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If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'
C. S. Lewis
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What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?
Norodom Sihanouk
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To my astonishment, when Wolf Hall came out, people asked if I made it up - Thomas More burning of heretics. It was well documented. And he was proud of it! The Brits love lost causes.
Hilary Mantel
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In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.
Whitley Strieber
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Day of wrath, that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning.
Abraham Coles
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I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.
Alonzo Bodden
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Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it.
Paul Auster
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If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
Haruki Murakami
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...the fire doesn't know for who is burning.
Conn Iggulden
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Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.
Passenger
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Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
Ray Bradbury
