"The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well."
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"A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses"
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"she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses."
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"The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together"
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"That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said."
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"The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend."
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"Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So?"
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"The Doctor: Rose... before I go, I just want to tell you: you were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. And do you know what? [Pause] So was I!"
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"Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses."
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"I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses."
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"Now I know how Joan of Arc felt, As the flames rose to her Roman nose And her Walkman started to melt..."
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"If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so."
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"He felt his heart pounding fiercely in his chest. How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive. But it would have to stop, and soon. Its beats were numbered. How many would there be time for, as he rose and walked through the castle for the last time, out into the grounds and into the forest?"
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"Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair."
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"Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread."
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"He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice."
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"The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose."
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"The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium."
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"His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!"
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"When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse."
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