"What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?"
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"Tis an ill wind that blows no minds."
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"Every little advantage is of great moment when men have to come to blows."
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"He would take the blow so you didn't have to."
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"You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up."
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"The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious."
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"Blows are sarcasms turned stupid."
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"But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act."
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"Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling."
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"Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of "individuality" lost."
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"A stray hair, by its continued irritation, may give more annoyance than a smart blow."
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"I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire."
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"What was scattered, gathers. What was gathered, blows away"
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"The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could no longer bear. Jude understood the impulse. Each beat of his heart was a fresh and staggering blow felt in the nerves behind his eyes and in his temples. Punishing evidence of life."
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"In Blow-up I used my head instinctively!"
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"I'll say this about the war protesters: At least most of them are only putting duct tape across their mouths so I can still tell the rest of them to blow it out their ass."
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"I'm left on a lot of things. If two gay guys want to get married, I could care less. If a nut case from overseas wants to blow up their wedding, that's when I'm right."
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"Wherever waves can roll, and winds can blow."
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"The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck."
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"Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose."
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