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• I linger on the flathouse roof, the moonlight is divine. But my heart is all aflutter like the washing on the line.

  Nathalia Crane

  Heart, Lines, Moonlight

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• I did my own thinking. I have never given it out to be done by others as one gives out washing.

  William Mulock

  Thinking, Giving, Done

  "Sir William Mulock Reviews the Past". The Newmarket Era, pp. 1-2, news.ourontario.ca. April 06, 1934.

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• I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

  Henry Winkler

  Believe, Lakes, Sea

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• I have observed, on board a steamer, how men and women easily give way to their instinct for flirtation, because water has the power of washing away our sense of responsibility, and those who on land resemble the oak in their firmness behave like floating seaweed when on the sea.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Responsibility, Men, Sea

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “Letters to a Friend”, p.175, Routledge

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• I love the night. I love to feel the tide of darkness rising, slowly and slowly washing, turning over and over, lifting, floating, all that lies strewn upon the dark beach, all that lies hid in rocky hollows.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Beach, Lying, Dark

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.362, Wordsworth Editions

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• At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Rain, Men, Inquiry

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• Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Lying, Sleep, Dust

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• One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, [so] they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Women, World

  Alice Schwarzer, Simone de Beauvoir (1984). “Simone De Beauvoir Today”, Not Avail

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• The plot is not very important to me, though a novel must have one, of course. It's just a line to hang the washing on.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Important, Plot, Lines

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• For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Underwear, Obsessed

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• Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.

  Alfred Jarry

  Food, Water, Cooking

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• Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Views, World, Emotion

  Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.

  Stevie Smith

  Cat, Rolling, Might

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• Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

  Carson McCullers

  Doctors, Hands, Half

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Music, Song, Sound

  Linda Ronstadt (2014). “Simple Dreams: A Musical Memoir”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're at the sink washing the cup, wash the cup. Don't worry about everything else. ... We forget to appreciate the simplest moments of the day, the sublime in the ordinary.

  Julia Roberts

  Appreciate, Worry, Sublime

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• Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

  James Richardson

  Writing, Perfect, Sun

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• No matter how you have searched, there will always be one teaspoon left at the bottom of the washing-up water.

  Irene Thomas

  Water, Matter, Bottom

  Irene Thomas (1979). “The Bandsman's Daughter: An Autobiography”

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• I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that.

  Howard Spring

  Mother, Book, Yellow

  Howard Spring (2016). “My Son, My Son”, p.11, Head of Zeus

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• Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.

  Muriel Lester

  Prayer, Fifteen, Start The Day

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• Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: “When he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Morning, Dirty, Mirrors

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.126, Penguin

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• All I see in the mirror every morning is a face that needs washing.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Morning, Mirrors, Needs

  Elizabeth Taylor (1965). “Elizabeth Taylor: an informal memoir”

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• Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

  Mary J. Blige

  Makeup, Night, Dirt

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• Behold the Sea,
  The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
  Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
  Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
  Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
  Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
  Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
  Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
  And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
  Giving a hint of that which changes not.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Sweet, Strong

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.241, Delphi Classics

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• The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fabric, Poet, Injury

  William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Charlotte L. Fish (1817). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: In Ten Volumes ; with the Corrections and Illustrations of Dr. Johnson, G. Steevens, and Others”, p.31

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