"Most songs that aren't jump-rope songs, or lullabies, are cautionary tales or goodbye songs and road songs."
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"The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck."
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"Let us not throw the rope after the bucket."
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"The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting."
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"Scatter money in a crowd, how they scramble for it; offer bread to the starving, how greedily they seize it; throw a rope to the drowning, how he eagerly grasps it! With like eagerness and earnestness may the Spirit of God help you to lay hold on Christ."
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"Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss."
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"I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake."
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"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."
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"Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine."
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"I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back."
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"Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres."
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"There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit."
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"That is the logical tight-rope on which we have to walk if we wish to interpret nature."
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"When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope."
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"Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope."
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"The end of the rope stops in the palm of God."
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"I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes."
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"Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!"
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"I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes."
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"How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them."
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