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Letter "T" » tangles
«I had looked for happiness in fast living, but it was not there. I tried to find it in money, but it was not there either. But when I placed myself in tune with what I believe to be the fundamental truths of life, when I began to develop my limited ability, to rid my mind of all kinds of tangled thoughts, and fill it with zeal and courage and love, when I gave myself a chance by treating myself decently and sensibly, I began to feel the stimulating, warm glow of happiness.»
Author: Edward Young
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
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«So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.»
Author: Gordon W. Allport
| Keywords:
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«I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.»
Author: James A. Michener
| About:
Emotion,
Writing
| Keywords:
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«The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.»
Author: Remy de Gourmont
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«Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive»
«But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tangled vines I saw her distant and tiny, like a white flame on the faint luminescent shell road. [concerning the way claudia looked]»
Author: Anne Rice
(Author)
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Claudia, concerning, faint, luminescent, shell, tangle, tangled, tangles, tangle with, The Faint, The Vines, tiny, vines
«The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, efficiency, egalitarianism, hierarchical, persuaded, sentimental, tangles, trauma
«I say that I am myself, but what is this Self of mine But a knot in the tangled skein of things where chance and change combine? Donald R»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think their children are na?ve.»
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