"the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)"
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"If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore) If you have to dry the dishes ('Stead of going to the store) If you have to dry the dishes And you drop one on the floor Maybe they won't let you Dry the dishes anymore"
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"For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed."
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"As we have seen, bread, and especially dry bread, evokes secretion of considerably larger quantities of saliva than meat."
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"I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I reached out for something to attach myself to - and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself, left high and dry as I was, I nevertheless found something I had not looked for - myself."
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"Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent on your prosperity consciousness. As you can conceive of more, more will come into your life. There is an ocean of abundance available! There is plenty for everyone. You cannot rob another and they cannot rob you, and in no way can you drain the ocean dry... there is always more."
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"His [Bob Dylan] humour was dry and splendid."
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"When the heart is dry the eye is dry."
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"I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day."
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"All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry."
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"To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing."
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"Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun."
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"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry."
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"We don't get ourselves dry cleaned."
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"Two dry Sticks will burn a green One."
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"Big deal, so he scored. The last time I saw someone dance like that I had to pay her $20 and have my pants dry cleaned the next day."
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"He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry."
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"Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again."
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"Maybe it's better like this, better that everything should go up in a blaze of dry grass and that people should begin again."
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"As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry."
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