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They luxuriated in the feeling of deep and all pervading satisfaction, a feeling of knowing absolutely that all was well with the world and them… — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Why, then the world ’s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. — William Shakespeare
Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime… — Anthony Bourdain
It's a great thing when a man knows how to dance, she said. When a man can dance, the world is his oyster." Adele, Henry's… — Joyce Maynard
Do not enjoy yourself. Enjoy dances and theaters and joy-rides and champagne and oysters; enjoy jazz and cocktails and night-clubs if you can enjoy nothing… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,' he resumed presently. 'They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite… — Hector Hugh Munro
Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of… — Michael Chabon
Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both… — Lauren Willig
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes! — Kurt Vonnegut
The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress — Arthur Miller
The oyster was an animal worthy of New Orleans, as mysterious and private and beautiful as the city itself. If one could accept that oysters… — Tom Robbins
We build a shell around it, like an oyster dealing with a painful particle of grit, coating it with smooth pearl layers in order to… — Neil Gaiman
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked… — Robin McKinley
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:… — John Green
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the… — Rumi
There are stories that are true, in which each individual's tale is unique and tragic, and the worst of the tragedy is that we have… — Neil Gaiman
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he… — Gore Vidal
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls. — Chris Gardner
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing… — Christopher Marlowe
Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the… — Abbi Glines
We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much… — Sarah Waters

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