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«Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.»
«The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money»
Author: Jimmy Breslin
| Keywords:
arsonist, builds, professional, The Professional, vacant, vacant lot
«Absence of occupation is not rest; a mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.»
«If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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corner, opinions, quarters, rush, rush out, smallest, the smallest, vacant
«For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.»
«A vacant mind is open to all suggestions, as a hollow mountain returns all sounds»
«A man's heart may have a secret sanctuary where only one woman may enter, but it is full of little anterooms which are seldom vacant.»
«The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage.»
«The sun to me is dark / And silent as the moon, / When she deserts the night / Hid in her vacant, interlunar cave.»
«No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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eye condition, likewise, multitudes, prattle, prattles, prattling, reasonably, Rest of the world, vacant
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