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• Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

  Gertrude Stein

  Believe, Sleep, Breathing

  Gertrude Stein (2016). “GERTRUDE STEIN Ultimate Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Plays, Memoirs & Essays: Three Lives, Tender Buttons, Geography and Plays, Matisse, Picasso and Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas…”, p.327, e-artnow

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• Drinking water is like washing out your insides. The water will cleanse the system, fill you up, decrease your caloric load and improve the function of all your tissues.

  Kevin R. Stone

  Drinking, Water, Tissues

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• I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

  Ida B. Wells

  Friday, Country, Children

  Ida B. Wells (2013). “Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  Wendy Cope

  Christmas, Men, Earth

  Wendy Cope (2017). “Christmas Poems”, p.35, Faber & Faber

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• My creative process is quite slow. I hear melodies in my head while I'm washing the dishes and I allow my subconscious to do the work.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Creative, Process, Dishes

  "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I define success differently'". Interview with Caroline Sullivan, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2012.

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• After shows my face feels dirty with makeup and sweat, especially in the smaller venues, so it feels good to get back to the bus and smooth it away. Sometimes you need something alcohol-based, especially on tour when you don't always get a chance to keep washing your face all the time.

  Ellie Goulding

  Dirty, Makeup, Sweat

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was more ashamed that I couldn't work the washing machine than the fact that I was taking drugs.

  Elton John

  Drug, Machines, Facts

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• When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Dad, Dust

  "Palin on DHS employee running a hate site: This is 'stupidity on steroids, Obama administration!'". "On the Record", www.foxnews.com. August 23, 2013.

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• Baking is like washing--the results are equally temporary.

  Patricia Briggs

  Baking, Results, Temporary

  Patricia Briggs (2004). “Raven's Shadow”, p.44, Penguin

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• Vacuuming is great. I do the laundry. I love washing machines. I'm the maid in my house.

  Denis Leary

  House, Machines, Maids

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• His mouth opens. From inside him comes a slow stream, without breath, without interruption. It flows up through his body and out upon me; it passes through the cabin, through the wreck; washing the cliffs and shores of the island, it runs northward and southward to the ends of the earth. Soft and cold, dark and unending, it beats against my eyelids, against the skin of my face.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Running, Dark, Islands

  J. M. Coetzee (2017). “Foe: A Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• Sex is like washing your face - just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.

  Sophia Loren

  Sex, Love Is, Faces

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• In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.

  Mandy Moore

  Children, Drinking, School

  "Remembering the Forgotten Killer" by Mandy Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• Now let me teach you another thing about my daughter. I love her very much but she has the ability to hide as expertly as a sock in a washing machine. No one knows where it goes, just as no one knows where she goes, but at least when she decides to come back, we're all here, waiting for her.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Daughter, Waiting, Machines

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• Unshed tears leave a deposit on your heart. Eventually they form a crust around it and paralyze it, the way mineral deposits paralyze a washing machine.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Heart, Tears, Machines

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• Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Nice, Loneliness, Water

  Banana Yoshimoto (2011). “The Lake”, p.187, Melville House

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• CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy

  Rachel Caine

  Winning, Boys, Pay

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• Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

  Dylan Thomas

  Baby, Garden, Garters

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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• If you will die for me, I will die for you and our graves will be like two lovers washing their clothes together in a laundromat If you will bring the soap I will bring the bleach.

  Richard Brautigan

  Two, Clothes, Together

  Richard Brautigan, “Romeo And Juliet”

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• The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flirty, Husband, Flirting

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.17

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• I find myself dreaming of doing normal things - like staying home and washing dishes.

  Shalom Harlow

  Dream, Home, Normal

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• A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning.

  Kate Elliott

  Dream, Eye, Kissing

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• I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling.

  Pablo Neruda

  Dirty, Fall, Eye

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.61, Macmillan

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• This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

  Terry Pratchett

  Clever, Home, Men

  Terry Pratchett (2016). “The Last Hero”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• My greatest enemies are Women and the Sea. These things I hate. Women because they are weak and stupid and live in the shadow of men and are nothing compared to them, and the Sea because it has always frustrated me, destroying what I have built, washing away what I have left, wiping clean the marks I have made.

  Iain Banks

  Hate, Stupid, Men

  Iain Banks (2013). “The Wasp Factory: A Novel”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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