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Letter "H" » his mother
«The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.»
Author: Clark Gable
(Actor)
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Against All Odds, dance of death, dishonor, dishonored, dishonoring, dishonors, his mother, odds, pal, pals, song and dance, standards
«You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.»
«What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her face down. That was to kiss. His mother put her lips on his cheek; her lips were soft and they wetted his cheek; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?»
«The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Art
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drudge, drudges, his mother, seventy, starve, work at
«We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
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Dr., Dr, hall, his mother, mourning
«You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.»
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