"A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her."
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"I believe that the main thing in beginning a novel is to feel, not that you can write it, but that it exists on the far side of a gulf, which words can't cross: that it's to be pulled through only in a breathless anguish."
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"Your own brain ought to have the decency to be on your side!"
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"God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."
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"Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other."
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"In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these."
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"There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them"
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"Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say."
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"The National Football league is on the wrong side of history."
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"I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin."
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"Well, part of the trick of getting elected president, if you look at George W. Bush and Barack Obama, is convincing the other side, at least temporarily, not to hate and fear. And that, Trump is not going to able to do that"
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"Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance."
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"Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)"
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"The second side of Abbey Road is my favorite."
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"I never take my own side in a quarrel."
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"Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater."
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"Some said Delana was sucessful as a mediator because both sides would agree just to make her stop staring at them."
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"Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals."
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"On the other side of the fear live your possibilities."
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"If a double-decker bus Crashes into us To die by your side... The pleasure - the privilege is mine."
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