"True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town."
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"When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring."
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"You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town. [Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]"
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"Death possesses a good deal, of real estate, namely, the graveyard in every town."
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"What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there."
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"Don't tell me this town 'aint got no heart"
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"She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own."
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"I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel."
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"She loved mysteries so much that she became one."
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"I didn’t need you, you idiot. I picked you. And then you picked me back."
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"It is so hard to leave-until you leave."
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"[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town."
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"I love only one girl, one in every town."
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"If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade."
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"Where I'm from? A little town called none of yo god damn business."
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"Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?"
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"Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe or as utterly fabulous on the screen."
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"Small towns harbor small imaginations."
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"They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down."
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"This town needs an enema!"
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