One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
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Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.Elizabeth Bowen
Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.
Elizabeth Bowen
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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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
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I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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