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«The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it; we casually fan the embers of past intimacies, and buy it lunch.»
Author: R. Z. Sheppard
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«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
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«Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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ember, embers, fires, lightened, lightening, lightens, lighten up, spiritless, stirred, tasks
«To bring the dead to life / Is no great magic. / Few are wholly dead: / Blow on a dead man's embers / And a live flame will start.»
«I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.»
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