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«Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus.»
Author: Enid Bagnold
(Writer)
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build up, cactus, drain, pin, pin down, streaming, uselessness
«We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.»
«When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin,She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin.An abstemious man would reel at her look,As she rolled a bright eye and praised his last book.»
Author: William Plomer
(Writer)
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abstemious, awash, Bright Eyes, champagne, gin, gins, guests, look sharp, pin, praised, recklessly, reel, reeled, Reeling, Reels, Reel to, rolled, sharp, sober
«What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
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collecting, elegant, ignominies, ignominy, phrase, pin, polished, transfixed, transfixing
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