Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness"
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Wool
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Clint Eastwood
Actor, Director, Producer
"A lot of people are realizing they had the wool pulled over their eyes by Obama."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves."
Jack Johnson
Musician
"Trouble travels fast / When you're specially designed for crash testing / Or wearing wool sunglasses in the afternoon."
Charles James
Fashion Designer
"You should know that my most important contribution was always in tailoring; coats, jackets, wool dresses… so few of which went into the magazines."
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"Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person."
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"But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back."
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"Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself."
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"My thoughts ran a wool-gathering."
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