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Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: American Car Era Flickering Gas Lamps Lit Many Pulled Rail Rooted Steam Trains View

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Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Topics: Accomplishments Aim Bringing Century Flickering Highest Human Human Voice Men Others Our Single Still Together Transport Voice

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Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

~Bruce Lee

Topics: Becomes Beginning Caught Coal Fierce Fire Flame Flickering Friendship Grows Hearts Hot In The Beginning Light Like Love Love Is Mature Often Older Only Our Our Love Pretty Still Very

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Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Attention Away Because Being Children Corner Dreadful Flickering Programmes Short Spans Television Today Very Which

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Movies used to be called the 'flicks' because they flickered badly: because 16 or 18 frames a second - which was those hand cranked movies on a single-bladed shutter - was really badly flickering.

~Douglas Trumbull

Topics: Badly Because Flickering Frames Hand Movies Really Second Shutter Those Used Which

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Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

~Eugenio Montale

Topics: Cracks Edge Eyes Feet Flickering Happiness Ice Knife Light Loves May Thin Touch Walk Who You

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The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: About Actually Being Better Books Events Flickering Hardly Life Like Lose Odd Part Place Real Real Life Remember Seems Sometimes Tend Than Them Thing Took Were Writer Writing You Your Yourself

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