"Never tell tales about a woman. No matter how far away she is, shell always hear you."
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"The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it early."
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"Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil"
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"A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window."
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"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
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"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends."
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"Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland."
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"In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."
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"I know that a creed is the shell of a lie."
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"The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me."
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"I am the kind of woman who loves hurricanes. They put me in a party mood. Make me want to eat oysters on the half shell, and act slutty."
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"Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear."
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"Strength is an empty shell."
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"If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand."
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"Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells."
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"Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone."
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"Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too."
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"It seems to me that I never grow unless I'm actually working with other actors who have shed whatever shell it is that keeps them insulated from each other."
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