153 Quotes About Cracks

  • Author Björk
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    If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

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  • Author Gerald Brenan
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    Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

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  • Author Honoré de Balzac
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    In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.

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  • Author John Barnes
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    There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

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  • Author Lauren Beukes
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    So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

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  • Author Robert Benchley
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    People who begin sentences with "I may be old-fashioned but--" are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.

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