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"Hang on, Pa, don't reach for yer shotgun just yet," I said, grinning over the protective streak I found funny, when there wasn't actually anything to shelterme from. "We were just circlin' the wagons, not having an orgy." My dad suddenly looked like he might be sick. "Please don't ever say that word again." "Wagons?"
"Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle."
""He's lying, Kay," Nash said, fists clenched at his sides. "Hellions can't lie, but we all know reapers can." "Careful, pot," Tod said. "Someone might notice your resemblance to the kettle.""
"They all laugh. We all laugh. And it occurs to me that I might be meeting Tobias's true faction. They are not characterized by a particular virtue. They claim all colors, all activities, all virtues, and all flaws as their own."
"She smiles.Her teeth are crooked. If I knocked them out,I might be doing her a favor."
"We will stop 99 per cent of the attacks. But one per cent of attacks might get through and that is what I am saying."
"I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished."
"All that is active, all that is enveloped in time and space, is endowed with what might be described as an abstract, ideal and absolute impermeability."
"All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into."
"Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as yet far from being conscious, knows not its own tendency."
"A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness."
"Go into one of our cool churches, and begin to count the words that might be spared, and in most places the entire sermon will go."
"The manly part is to do with might and main what you can do."
"Great men exist that there might be greater men."
"Dear though the reader might be, I'd be silly to cater to what the reader wanted."
"If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour waiting for it to resolve, waiting for the geometry of a theme to be exactly what you want them to be. That was my process to get photos."
"We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear."
"In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation."
"People often forget our emotional contribution to relationships and to marriage and that might be a completely sexist comment but, what I tried not to do [in "Fences"] is, I tried to just put that monologue as part of my stream of consciousness."
"Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue."
