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Circles Quote by Ann Petry

“All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.” quote by Ann Petry — Download Open image

“All life goes in a circle, around and around, you started at one place, and then came right back to it again.”

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All truly great art is propaganda.

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Everything you ever had, everything you ever lost. It's all there in the trumpet--pain and hate and trouble and peace and quiet and love.

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In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all…

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Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb…

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Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

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And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We…

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If, for instance, they have heard something from the postman, they attribute it to a semi-official statement; if they have fallen into conversation with a stranger at a bar, they can conscientiously describe him as a source that has hitherto proved unimpeachable. It is only when the journalist is reporting a whim of his own, and one to which he…

Maybe this is a way of gaslighting myself, but I think of it this way: In certain circles, my grandpa was considered to be…

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All my life's a circle; But I can't tell you why; Season's spinning round again; The years keep rollin' by.

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There's when a phrase circles in my head in a number of ways for any number of days, weeks, or months, and then that…

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I have no name for what circles so perfectly.

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The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false…

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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would…

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