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  • Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose. As no publisher for a long time would publish serious work in comics, the only way a lot of it came out was because of self-publishing. Many of the greatest works of the medium are self-published.

    Self   Long   Serious  
  • There is certainly a red for everyone.

    Cheerful   Red   Scarlet  
  • A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

    Food   White   Cooking  
  • She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

    Teacher   Strong   Home  
    The Scarlet Letter ch. 18 (1850)
  • Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

    Long   Letters   Scarlet  
    ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.
  • A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (1851). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.166
  • Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics.

  • It [the scarlet letter] had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.45, Bibliolis Books
  • ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

    Fall   Home   Rocks  
  • Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

    The Scarlet Letter ch. 15 (1850)
  • But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the colour to their lifetime; and, still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

    Feelings   Events   Ghost  
    The Scarlet Letter ch. 5 (1850)
  • It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over." "Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination.

    Fever   Way   Should  
    Leo Tolstoy (1998). “Anna Karenina”, p.137, Oxford Paperbacks
  • To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.

    Long   Mind   Fever  
    Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.168, Penguin
  • You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.

    Kings   Believe   Boys  
    Neil Gaiman (2009). “The Graveyard Book”, p.69, A&C Black
  • If I look back, my mother was always out. I can remember the perfume and her scarlet chiffon dress and crystal beads, going to a party. She used to play her violin at restaurants later on in life and at old people's homes. She loved the races, which she used to take me to as a child: our carpets were bought with her winnings. Loved her chickens.

    Mother   Children   Party  
  • The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.

    Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.140, Faber & Faber
  • A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

    Running   Art   Use  
    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.32, ebookspub
  • From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze

    Beauty   Yellow   Orange  
    Pablo Neruda (1997). “Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon: Selected Poems of Pablo Neruda”, HarperCollins
  • This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight

    Hate   Crazy   People  
  • What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?

    Strong   Stars   Men  
    1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.
  • Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

    Spring   Rain   Land  
    Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press
  • Autumn arrives like a warrior with the stain of blood upon his brazen mail. His crimson scarf is rent. His scarlet banner drips with gore. His step is like a flail upon the threshing floor.

    Autumn   Warrior   Blood  
  • We leave Scarlet Witch without a home, without a family, and she ends up creating a surrogate family within the Avengers and making a decision to be a part of the team. I think a lot of that has to do with what Jeremy's character - like his attitude towards her and the speech he gives her at the end of the film. So we pick up with her having started a new life, but still trying to figure out what her abilities are and if using them causes greater good or greater damage.

    Source: screenrant.com
  • The morns are meeker than they were, The nuts are getting brown; The berry's cheek is plumper, The rose is out of town. The maple wears a gayer scarf, The field a scarlet gown. Lest I should be old-fashioned, I'll put a trinket on.

    Fall   Autumn   Nuts  
    Emily Dickinson (2004). “Poems”, p.57, 1st World Publishing
  • And at that moment a wind came out of the northwest, and entered the woods and bared the golden branches, and danced over the downs, and led a company of scarlet and golden leaves, that had dreaded this day but danced now it had come; and away with a riot of dancing and glory of colour, high in the light of the sun that had set from the sight of the fields, went wind and leaves together.

    Light   Sight   Wind  
  • Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story ... Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. The only point in the case which deserved mention was the curious analytical reasoning from effects to causes, by which I succeeded in unravelling it.'' —Sherlock Holmes on John Watson's "pamphlet", "A Study in Scarlet".

    Stories   Causes   Facts  
  • Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

    A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)
  • I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

    SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “A Study in Scarlet”, p.13, ebookspub
  • A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.

    Daughter   Fall   Autumn  
    Henry James (1993). “Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America”, p.370, Library of America
  • When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

    Hate   Teeth   Ashes  
    Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Untold”, p.91, Simon and Schuster
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