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Letter "I" » intervals
«Sir, Sunday morning, although recurring at regular and well foreseen intervals, always seems to take this railway by surprise.»
Author: William S. Gilbert
(Lyricist)
| Keywords:
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«The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.»
«Our passions shape our books, repose writes them in the intervals»
«Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.»
«Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.»
«The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence»
«Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
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«There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.»
Author: Woodrow T. Wilson
(President)
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