"Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off."
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"I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all."
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"I wanted a business that I didn't have to give my life to - something simple, beautiful and branded. The kind of endeavor where I could meet people but still blow people's minds with a very inspiring point of view. So, a shoe store."
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"Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought."
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"Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow."
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"I sometimes try a variance of the drawer trick - [I write it] and then come back to it and see if it blows."
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"So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived"
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"One day I'm gonna bust, blow up on this society, why did you lie to me, I couldn't find a trace of humanity."
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"When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning."
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"Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief."
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"Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again."
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"No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction."
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"You think, I love more everyday. I love more everyday, more everyday, I couldn't possibly love any more, I'm going to blow up. And then you blow up. Your chest actually starts to hurt. You love so much you think I can't love any more. And then you love so much more than you ever dreamed possible."
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"I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away."
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"Mid the sharp, short emerald wheat, scarce risen three fingers well, The wild tulip at the end of its tube, blows out its great red bell, Like a thin clear bubble of blood, for the children to pick and sell."
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"Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back."
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"If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow."
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"Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!"
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"It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down."
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"And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms. Call it the Thing in the Cellar. Call it the Blow Lunch Factor. Call it the Loony Tunes File. I think of it as my private dinosaur, huge, slimy, and mindless, stumbling around in the stinking swamp of my subconscious, never finding a tar pit big enough to hold it."
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