"The beach has a language of its own,……" — Franny Billingsley
"The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on innumerable holes in the sand. Bubbles form and fade. A new language, with a new alphabet..."
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Franny Billingsley
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67 Quotes by Franny Billingsley
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I explained we lost the porch to the flood. Father hasn't gotten around to rebuilding it, although he's quite a…
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I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but…
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...if you don't argue, you can't give in...
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Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and…
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I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the…
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If you say a word, it leaps out and becomes the truth. I love you. I believe it. I believe…
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It is true that I can trip over anything and nothing – a speck of dust, a patch of sunlight,…
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It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie.
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A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its…
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes…
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I might be a wicked girl who'd think nothing of eating a baby for breakfast, but I'd never allow myself…
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I have some questions about betrayal,” I said. “Think about this: A person who calls you his best friend, and…
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I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them…
— Erma Bombeck
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I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.
— Giorgio Armani
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Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
— Frederic Goudy
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The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to…
— Murray Rothbard
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental…
— Jonathan Swift
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I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that…
— John Wayne
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As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,…
— Robert Fulton
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I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
— Dennis Miller
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The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the…
— Marcel Duchamp
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
— Victor Hugo
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P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
— Mitch Hedberg
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It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth…
— Chris Brown
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