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“There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“my drops of tears I'll turn to sparks of fire.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.” William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“what fire does not destroy, it hardens.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire—a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting...” Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.” William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
“Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“It wasn’t so easy, though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.” Jack London, White Fang
“a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.” Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

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