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• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws… — A. S. Byatt
• Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the… — William Banting
• To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer… — Thomas Merton
• Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting… — Michael Leunig
• But if we know that the people of God are first a fellowship of sinners, we are freed to hear… — Richard J. Foster
• No naturalist has devoted more painstaking attention to the structure of the barnacles than Mr. Darwin. — Richard Owen
• Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort. — Carolyn Heilbrun
• In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both… — Nick Flynn
• Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by… — Janet Fitch
• I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle. — Elizabeth Gilbert
• Come on, lover, let's have a look," Eric said, giving me a quick kiss. He jumped off the back porch… — Charlaine Harris
• Really, Alexia, what could have possessed you to attach yourself to the side of the ship in such a juvenile… — Gail Carriger

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