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• The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

  Maya Angelou

  Night, Hair, Dresses

  Maya Angelou (2010). “All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes”, p.3, Vintage

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• In junior high in Germany I fought kids all the time. I had such a bad temper, I almost got thrown out of school. A few lickings from my dad got me out of that scene. He wore me out with a paddle.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Dad, School

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• Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.

  Anthony de Mello

  People, Busy, Fingers

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• I wouldn't even feel sorry for us if I was going against us. I know teams are licking their chops. The Bulls or Milwaukee, they're excited. Even though somebody is hurt they're still excited because they feel like we're a man down and we might not be as strong, but we're confident here. We got the players to still make something special happen. Guys just have to step up as a unit.

  Tristan Thompson

  Strong, Hurt, Sorry

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• When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Exercise, Vanity, Self

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• And I want you to notice that one of them, one of the men almost has his tongue hanging out like he's licking his chops. Like this baby is ours now. And that's fine. You may call that love. But it looks to me a little bit like lust. And when they crave to bring the children of heterosexual couples through adoption into their homes, so that they can raise them in the homosexual lifestyle. And studies now show, that up to 20% kids raised by gay couples become gay themselves. It is a recruiting tool. And it is a child abuse tool.

  Gordon Klingenschmitt

  Baby, Children, Couple

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• Used to be that my whole body was my canvas-hot cuts licking my ribs, ladder rungs climbing my arms, thick milkweed stalks shooting up my thighs.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cutting, Climbing, Ribs

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.52, Penguin

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• What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all
  eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

  Samuel Beckett

  Should Have, Giving, Joy

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.332, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Lying, Writing

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.38, Algonquin Books

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• Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray.

  Helen Rowland

  Kissing, Ashtrays, Smokers

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• From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set him down on his four, as yet not quite simultaneous legs, and regarded him. He wandered a little round our legs, neither wagging his tail nor licking at our hands; then he looked up, and my companion said: "He's an angel!"

  John Galsworthy

  Dog, Angel, Hands

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• Oh, impossible. Fancy cream puffs so soon after breakfast. The very idea made one shudder. All the same, two minutes later Jose and Laura were licking their fingers with that absorbed inward look that only comes from whipped cream.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Ideas, Two, Looks

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.286, Delphi Classics

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• Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

  Emily Bronte

  Cat, Mind, Watches

  Emily Bronte (1858). “Wuthering Heights”, p.54

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• It almost felt like she was sucking it all out of me, like she sucked on that sticky red lollipop, the one she kept licking as she drove.

  Kami Garcia

  Lollipop, Red, Sticky

  Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.109, Penguin UK

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• We saw a fair bit of video on them towards the back end of the week and we were licking our lips.

  Brett Morris

  Rugby League, Video, Saws

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• Then, in my most careful handwriting, come all the details it would be a crime to forget. Lady licking Prim's cheek. My father's laugh. Peeta's father with the cookies. The colour of Finnick's eyes. What Cinna could do with a length of silk. Boggs reprogramming the Holo. Rue poised on her toes, arms slightly extended, like a bird about to take flight. On and on. We seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their death count.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Eye, Water

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• What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?

  Mark Twain

  Girl, School, Fool

  Mark Twain (2005). “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.122, Prestwick House Inc

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• I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

  James Patterson

  Girl, Mother, Dog

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• Tomorrow. The word hangs in the air for a moment, both a promise and a threat. Then it floats away like a paper boat, taken from her by the water licking at her ankles.

  Thrity Umrigar

  Taken, Air, Water

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• There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in the meat And his face in the fish And his big hairy paws In the buttery dish, He's nibbling the noodles, And munching the rice, He's slurping the soda, He's licking the ice. And he lets out a roar If you open the door. And it gives me a scare To know he's in there-- That Polary Bear In our Fridgitydaire.

  Shel Silverstein

  Doors, Ice, Giving

  Shel Silverstein, “Bear In There”

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• There always has to be someone to take the punches. That's how it works. It isn't fair, it isn't right, but that kid licking slop off the floor over there means that we get to eat in peace.

  Alexander Gordon Smith

  Mean, Kids, Working It

  Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.

  Gail Carriger

  Kissing, Needs, Ears

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• Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

  Pat Conroy

  Winning, Tragedy, Encounters

  Pat Conroy (2002). “My Losing Season”, Nan A. Talese

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• You can't go around... licking things that come out of a water treatment plant. That's just... unsanitary.

  Rachel Caine

  Water, Plant, Treatment

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires”, p.169, Penguin

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• Oh you two look delicious," Bast said, licking her lips. "No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go!

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Two, Looks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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