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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one. — A. E. Housman
Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I… — Cornelia Funke
...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the… — Joseph Campbell
There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we… — Benjamin Hoff
Youâ€¦you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it." "I do like it," he said. His… — Richelle Mead
I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when… — Marilynne Robinson
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your… — Anthony de Mello
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth… — E L Konigsburg
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — Milan Kundera
The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism… — Karen Armstrong
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in… — Sarah Dunant
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. — Ernest Hemingway
You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular… — Paulo Coelho
The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out… — George Orwell
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. — George Bernard Shaw
As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.… — Parker J. Palmer
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried. — Audrey Niffenegger

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