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«That's one of the things I look forward to about an evening like this - someone to drink tea with at the end of it. For all I know, the whole point of civilisation is to provide one with someone to drink tea with at the end of an evening.»
«This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.»
Author: Charlie Brown
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depressed, head start, Hold Your, like this, stance, straighten, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up
«Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.»
«The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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exchange, jewel, like this, mere, priceless, shell, shells, squandered, squandering, squanders, The Exchange
«There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.»
«There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
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at bottom, cram, crammed, cramming, forbidden, in the beginning, like this, quest, quest for, spend-all, The Search, this one
«They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.»
Author: Imelda Marcos
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God
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Call Me, frivolous, like this, privileged, settle down, ugliness
«Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.»
Author: Tallulah Bankhead
(Actress)
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indication, indications, like this, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors
«The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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errors, finished, instincts, like this, newspaper, party, party politics, reader, ruin, secure
«People who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing they like.»
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