"Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit."
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"Jealousy had a taste, all right. A bitter and tongue-stinging flavor, like a peach pit."
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"My insurance provider probably wouldn't allow me to go into a mosh pit anymore. My brain is insured by Lloyd's of London, you know what I'm saying?"
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"That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more or less. Exactly. One-seed fruits really bother me for that reason. That's why I'd always rather eat raisins than prunes. Prune pits are even more imposing than cherry pits."
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"The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other."
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"At the pit's bottom is no anger."
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"In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue."
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"All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up."
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"You will not pit one word of God against another word of God."
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"Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit."
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"I was often in the pit lane, the noise was indescribable and I've no doubt that is why my hearing was affected."
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"I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides."
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"We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them. They'd park in the infield and we'd sit on those. Our heroes weren't the drivers, they were the pit crews. That's because we were local, and we knew what was going on."
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