"My universe is my eyes and my ears. Anything else is hearsay."
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"An envious heart makes a treacherous ear."
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"There comes in all our lives a time ... when the ears can listen to no music save what the moonlight breathes through the flute of silence."
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"If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to."
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"Where the eye divides, the ear connects."
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"I've had tinnitus for about 10 years, but since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse. Looking after your ears is unfortunately something you don't think about until there's a problem. I wish I'd thought about it earlier."
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"My words itch at your ears till you understand them"
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"The eye is the painter and the ear the singer."
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"I'm up to my ears in unwritten words."
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"Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears."
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"I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch."
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"As long as my music is real, it's no limit to how many ears I can grab."
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"It's the music. Your heart is in your ears."
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"The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation."
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"Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth."
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"Sometimes you want to whisper in God's ear, "God, we know you are in charge, but why don't you make it slightly more obvious?""
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"It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears."
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"The fullest and best ears of corn hang lowest toward the ground."
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"Shake paws, count your claws, You steal mine, I'll borrow yours. Watch my whiskers, check both ears. Robber foxes have no fears."
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"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."
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