Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.Elizabeth Bowen
Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.
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It could've been a disaster for people who couldn't see it on TV, so to speak. The fact that it was incorrect on TV alarmed me.
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Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
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First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context
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