"Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!"
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"And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."
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"Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life."
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"The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck."
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"I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one."
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"If they had wanted to punish me, they should have kept me in a communal apartment. Then I would have become a wreck."
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"He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life."
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"The smartest move I ever made in showbusiness was to start off looking like the kind of wreck I would end up as. I was already aged in the wood."
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"A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients."
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"and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades"
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"I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am."
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"I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway." "Something like that."
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"The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up."
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"Did you really think I'd ceased to care? Kitten, I care so much it wrecks me."
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"Most people are one car wreck away from needing somebody's help. So, I don't take anything for granted much anymore."
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"I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck."
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"... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been"
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