"Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
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"I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?"
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"There are times when phrases such as 'totally astonished' just don't do the job. I am of course delighted and honoured and, needless to say, flabbergasted."
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"Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them."
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"a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth."
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"In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'"
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"…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable."
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"All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light."
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"Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation."
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"The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man . . . . It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth."
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"I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark."
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"I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases."
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"Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble."
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"Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase."
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"why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you"
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"There’s this powerful phrase in the legal world, “Difficult cases make bad law.” The exception is the difficult case. You can’t generalize them by definition. So although they are fascinating, they don’t solve any problem because they’re so one of a kind."
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"When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish."
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"For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting."
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"I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise."
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