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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
(George Orwell (1903-1950), British author. "Inside the Whale," Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940).)
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Sexus, ch. 2 (1949).)
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Roman Virgil, thou that singest
Ilion's lofty temples robed in fire,
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. To Virgil (l. 1-2). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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There's another one for the fire.
(John Russo, U.S. screenwriter, and George Romero. Sheriff McClelland (George Kosana), Night of the Living Dead, after shooting the sole survivor of the zombies, mistakenly believing him to be a zombie (1968).)
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a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow,
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. No Second Troy (l. 6-8). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire,
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. Among School Children (l. 9-10). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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I fought fire with oil.
(Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), U.S. author, screenwriter. Marcus Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Spartacus, revealing he used bribery to beat a political rival (1960).)
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. As Kingfishers Catch Fire (l. 1). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press.)
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