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• No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

  Seneca the Elder

  Men, Swim, Concentration

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• He says NO! In thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes.

  Herman Melville

  Devil, Thunder, Obstinacy

  1851 Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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• I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

  Sloane Crosley

  Travel, Thinking, Phones

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• To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.

  Eddie Guerrero

  Wrestling, Matter, Steps

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• I mean everybody's got ex-boyfriends and girlfriends. Everybody's got baggage.

  Nina Dobrev

  Girlfriend, Ex Boyfriend, Mean

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• If you go into a relationship when you're 16, you've got no baggage.

  Daphne Guinness

  Ifs

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• I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking.

  Kerry Washington

  Movie, Writing, Rights

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. August 29, 2001.

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• The past is a room full of baggage and rubbish and sometimes things that are of use, but if they are of real use, I have kept them.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Real, Past, Use

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• I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

  Janice Hahn

  Airplane, Thinking, Issues

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• Forgiveness is the process of dropping off your emotional baggage.

  Tim Fargo

  Forgiveness, Emotional, Dropping

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• When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

  Arundhati Roy

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.175, Penguin Books India

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• Things you believe are baggage in your life.

  Stuart Wilde

  Believe

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• There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.

  Herman Melville

  Lying, Men, Europe

  Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). “Correspondence”, p.186, Northwestern University Press

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• As I say the words, I realize how true they are. And maybe that's the trick to getting through it, through life: realizing that everybody, including ourselves, is lugging around some kind of screwed-up baggage. Maybe we are put here to help each other carry the loads.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Life, Helping, Kind

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.232, Scholastic Inc.

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• You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Disappointment, Sadness, People

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

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• I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

  Neil Young

  Religious, Airports, Bored

  Song: Let It Shine, Album: Long May You Run

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• There is so much baggage we burden ourselves with over the years that keeps us from seeing things the way they are. Some baggage we carry with us for a single thought, some for years, and some for lifetimes. But there isn't one piece that isn't our own creation.

  Bill Porter

  Years, Pieces, Way

  Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.330, Counterpoint Press

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• We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Two, Darkness, Despair

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• I contemplate the notion that maybe regrets are a process of accumulation of time, as unavoidable as a closet full of clothes and more bags of them in the attic. Is accumulated baggage what makes people get old? If so, they need to clean out their fecking attics, send the stuff to consignment shops and remember how to walk around naked like kids, little bellies sticking out, always ready for a good laugh.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Regret, Kids, Clothes

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.306, Delacorte Press

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• Everyone has a burden, everyone has some baggage they're carrying.

  Richard McGuire

  Burden

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• You don't have contempt for a horse that's troubled. Everybody has baggage, everybody has things that they've had to deal with in their life, and it can be something positive depending on how you use it.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Use, Contempt

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

  Bob Weir

  Adventure, Littles, Inviting

  Source: medium.com

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• You obviously can't cast Brad [Pitt] as an everyman guy because he just brings way too much baggage.

  Andrew Dominik

  Guy, Too Much, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

  Roman Polanski

  Past, Accepting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Do you think your mother and I should have lived comfortably so long together, if ever we had been married? Baggage!

  John Gay

  Mother, Thinking, Should Have

  'The Beggar's Opera' (1728) act 1, sc. 8

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