"Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'."
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"You are asleep. Deep, deep asleep - and then the world caves in. The cat has leapt from the top window onto your stomach. He is saturated. He is hungry. He taps you into full wakefulness with a sodden paw "Could you open a can?""
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"The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave."
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"I didn’t realize that one tragedy can beget another, and another — bright-eyed disasters flooding out of a death hole like bats out of a cave."
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"The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up."
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"God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave."
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"Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots."
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"Puck flapped up to the happy couple. "Wait a minute! You have to ask someone to marry you? No one told me that! I thought you just hit them with a club and dragged them back to your cave!" Henry put his arm around Sabrina. "You're officially grounded from ever getting married." "Thank you," Sabrina whispered sincerely."
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"Never forget where you came from. That's what I think when I walk into a cave."
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"[Concerning monotheistic religions] The only thing these hysterical cults have in common is the belief that this world will be consumed, and deservedly so, when the moment is ripe. They also, all of them, profess a great disdain for earthly possessions. Yet they pass the intervening time in haggling over the most trivial and paltry property rights, over caves and rocks and disputable pieces of archeological rubbish."
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"The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand."
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"Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave."
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"Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die."
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"Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached."
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"one is never got out of the cave, one comes out of it."
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"Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."
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"...we can all shut-up and go back to our caves."
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"Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place."
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"John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives."
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"Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave."
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