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• Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Past, Thinking

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.199

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• Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Doors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “Roundabout Papers: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.13, The Floating Press

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• In Indiana, I wasn't anything special. But in New York, I've gone out with girls with purple hair who go out with me because I'm exotic!

  Jim Gaffigan

  Girl, New York, Hair

  "Comic Gaffigan Gets A Hayseed's Welcome to New York". "Sun-Sentinel" Newspaper, December 27, 2000.

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• I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, "Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Baby, Jobs, Mean

  "Taste This". Comedy Album, 1996.

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• The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

  Orson Scott Card

  Strong, Crazy, World

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.92, Macmillan

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• It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  People, World, May

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Chapter II), 1877.

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• I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Running, Children, Father

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• The new pornography is left-wing; and the new pornography is a vast graveyard where the Left has gone to die. The Left cannot have its whores and its politics too.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Wings, Graveyard, Pornography

  "Pornography, Men Possessing Women". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1979.

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• To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before.

  Bruce Lee

  Memories, Lying, Mind

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.9, Tuttle Publishing

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• Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.

  Diet Eman

  Hurt, Revenge, Betrayal

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• My relationship with my grandmother has gone from strength to strength. As a shy, younger man it could be harder to talk about weighty matters. It was: 'This is my grandmother who is the Queen, and these are serious historical subjects.'

  Prince William

  Queens, Grandmother, Men

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• I like individual scents on a girl, so you always recognize her and you keep her separate from other people in your head. I really love Egyptian musk. I've even gone to the mall and sprayed perfumes and just smelled them. I'm creepy. So creepy.

  Pete Wentz

  Girl, People, Creepy

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• Might have gone further and have fared worse.

  John Heywood

  Might

  "Proverbs". Part II, chapter 4. "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Steps, Arms, Call Me

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.

  Rebecca West

  Men, Expectations, Quality

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• I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Hate, Writing

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

  Alanis Morissette

  Life, Blow, Thinking

  Song: Isn't It Ironic, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sexy, Football, Dream

  Playboy, May 2004.

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• The tradition of portrait painting, to embellish or idealize the subject, remains the aim of everyday and of commercial photography, but it has had a much more limited career in photography considered as art. Generally speaking, the honors have gone to the Cordelias.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Careers

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.93, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Summer, Rain, Heart

  Arthur Hugh Clough (1874). “Poems: With a Memoir”, p.151

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• My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Desire, Haste, I Can

  1658 Last words. Quoted in John Morley Oliver Cromwell (1900), bk.5, ch.10.

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• A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was there The sweet cheat gone.

  Walter de La Mare

  Sweet, Night, Sorrow

  'The Ghost' (1918)

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• Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.

  Walter de La Mare

  Summer, Hay, Dainty

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lying, Sleep, Days Gone By

  Walter De La Mare (2007). “The Listeners and Other Poems”, p.34, Wildside Press LLC

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