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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was…
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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but…
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Seattle is this curious liberal island.
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and…
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave it behind!…
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In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's…
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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them); in cities,…
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting,…
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In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe…
— Giacomo Casanova
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In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test…
— Naomi Uemura
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I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western.…
— Lee Krasner
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And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who…
— Michel de Montaigne
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I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money.
— S. J. Perelman
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Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with…
— John Mason Brown
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I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say…
— Bill Bailey
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I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend,…
— Stephanie Beacham
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I loathe, I hate, chick flicks.
— Helen Mirren
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because its repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those…
— Fiona Shaw
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I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
— Max Beckmann
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Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?
— Jessica Zafra
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