"Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk."
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"I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and don't go saying 'we all.'" Excuse me, gentleman, but I am not justifying myself with this allishness. As far as I myself am concerned, I have merely carried to an extreme in my life what you have not dared to carry even halfway, and, what's more, you've taken your cowardice for good sense, and found comfort in thus deceiving yourselves. So that I, perhaps, come out even more "living" than you."
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"It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie."
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"It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. Sohrab's silence wasn't the self imposed silence of those with convictions, of protesters who seek to speak their cause by not speaking at all. It was the silence of one who has taken cover in a dark place, curled up all the edges and tucked them under."
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"The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves."
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"I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired."
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"Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away."
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"Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it."
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"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out."
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"It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can."
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"I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff."
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"Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home...” Gordian Pierce"
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"Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world."
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"Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone."
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"She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it."
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"Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently."
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"I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers, we have corpses on poles decorating the front of the house.” “Flowers are on the way, as is my best man, three seamstresses are ready to make any dress you desire, and I’ll have the corpses taken down,” he replied without missing a beat."
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"movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion."
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"In the last 100 years since the invention of sound reproduction, music has really taken off and it is much more a common language because of records and transportation."
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"Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to the accumulated memories in the brain cells? Perhaps many of you have not even asked such a question before, or if you have you may have said, "it's of very little importance- what is important is emotion." But I don't see how you can separate the two. If thought does not give continuity to feeling, feeling dies very quickly. So why in our daily lives, in our grinding, boring, frightened lives, has thought taken on such inordinate importance?"
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