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The suicide does not play the game, does not observe the rules. He leaves the party too soon, and leaves the other…
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The institution of marriage is just formalizing an emotion, an attempt to make it seem permanent. The emotion will last or it…
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I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so…
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The body can't distinguish between cleansing and punishing for the body is ignorant, and mute besides.
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Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed…
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not…
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The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
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The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
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Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be.
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Of the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow…
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Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
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We are the species that clamors to be lied to.
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
— Alec Guinness
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I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking…
— B B King
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The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work…
— Frank Sinatra
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Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
— Leonard Cohen
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The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without…
— Charlie Musselwhite
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But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.
— Taylor Dane
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I'll be the first to admit that my idea of God is pretty different. I believe in a God with a long…
— Jack Handey
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The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
— Gary Cherone
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Sally Barris has a voice like sparkling crystal. You could have knocked me over with a feather the first time I heard…
— Kathy Mattea
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Let heart and voice, like bells of silver, ring, the comfort that this day doth bring.
— Alexander Moody Stuart
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Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand…
— David Bowie
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With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.
— Stevie Wonder
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