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Stories come in all different kinds." Hester scooted closer, clearly enjoying the subject at hand. "There's tales, which are light and fluffy. Good for a smile on a sad day. Then you got yarns, which are showy-yarns reveal more about the teller than the story. After that there's myths, which are stories made up by whole groups of people. And last of all, there's legends." She raised a mysterious eyebrow. "Legends are different from the rest on account no one knows where they start. Folks don't tell legends; they repeat them. Over and over again through history.

Jonathan Auxier
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One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn. You have wound your sense of self so tightly that it's hard to be anything other than you, a big ball of yarn. That's just who you are, not string, or threads, but a ball of yarn.

Lodro Rinzler, The Buddha Walks into a Bar...: A Guide to Life for a New Generation
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I can’t sew, but I can spin one helluva yarn.

A.D. Posey
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I will always buy extra yarn. I will not try to tempt fate.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
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Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
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Cats, based on their corporeal existence, have a different view on trees even if one dismisses the fruit eating aspect. A closer look at common domestic feline behaviour makes these views spring forth like a kitten pouncing on a ball of yarn. It can be hard to miss.

Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
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It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
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All the supernatural yarns need a realist explanation and a supernatural one.

David Mitchell, Slade House
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Differences simply act as a yarn of curiosity unraveling until we get to the other side.

Ciore Taylor, The Conversation Starts Here: A Perspective of Self, Culture, and the American Society
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