"He puts the killing thing in his mouth but doesn't give it the power to kill him."
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"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."
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"I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him."
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"A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible."
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"You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon."
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"Charming villains have always had a decided social advantage over well-meaning people who chew with their mouths open."
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"And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same."
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"I didn't lie! I just created fiction with my mouth!"
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"Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded."
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"If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?"
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"The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great."
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"A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine."
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"If I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing."
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"There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut."
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"Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them."
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"I keep my mouth shut now. I've turned into a professional coward."
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"In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other."
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