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Letter "I" » iceberg
«I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt»
«I touch her hair. Her shoulders clench together and she stares at the ground. She looks like a stone bird. I am an iceberg. Everyday I float farther and farther out to sea. But that can't be. An iceberg feels no pain. An iceberg doesn't feel cold. I feel cold. I feel distant. There is no one. There is nothing. That's where I am. She won't look me in the eye anymore since I asked if I could kiss her. Even wanting turns her cold.»
«The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
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«If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that does»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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«If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.»
«A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity»
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