"One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse."
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"Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it."
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"You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers."
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"He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. ‘You your best thing, Sethe. You are.’ His holding fingers are holding hers. ‘Me? Me?"
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"It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business."
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"When I have my manuscript finished, more or less, I type it myself, with two fingers. I type fast with two fingers. And then when it's ready, I reread, recorrect, and retype it. Everything is my own work. I do not give it to secretaries or to typists."
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"Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in."
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"You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'"
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"I can't keep my fingers out of any pies."
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"People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it."
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"If one finger brings oil it soils the others."
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"Why, this hath not a finger's dignity."
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"There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both."
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"I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition."
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"As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next."
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"I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning."
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"Hey, look, I just regenerated a finger. Guess which one."
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"If no words come, you can always give him the finger."
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"You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind."
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"She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man."
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