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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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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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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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My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
(Robert Bridges (1844-1930), British poet, critic. My Delight and Thy Delight (l. 4-5). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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O delicate walker, babbler, dialectician Fire,
O enemy and image of ourselves,
(Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Anglo-Irish poet. Brother Fire (l. 13-14). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University 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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That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The Cloud (l. 45-46). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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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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