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“Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.”

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Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its…

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Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones…

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Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

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The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a…

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Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a brittle barnacle of…

Augusten Burroughs

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But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear the unconditional call of…

Richard J. Foster

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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human…

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I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

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Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.

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Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so…

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I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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