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«He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.»
«In family snapshots the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.»
Author: Michael Lesy
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Family
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Edge of, flash, interval, picture frame, profane, profaning, revelation, self-conscious, snapshot, snapshots, the edge, The Flash
«How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.»
«History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ''history'' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time -- and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.»
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
(Author, Journalist)
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bullshit, flash, hired, now and then, reasonable, retrospect
«A single idea / the sudden flash of a thought / may be worth a million dollars.»
«For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.»
«And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.»
«Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.»
«He that has no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family, was begot by a flash of lightning.»
«Defenseless under the night, Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light, Flash out wherever the Just, Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them, Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same, Negation and despair»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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beleaguer, Beleaguered, defenseless, dot, dots, dotted, Eros, flash, ironic, messages, stupor
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