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• No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you.

  Toni Morrison

  Simple, Joy, Teeth

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• You really don't understand the first thing about writing...for one thing, early in the morning is the worst possible time. the brain is like a wet sponge at that hour. And for another, real writing is a question of staring into space and waiting for the right ideas.

  Cornelia Funke

  Morning, Real, Writing

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• You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are dark and hard to navigate. The wet walls touch your shoulders on each side. When the trees were there I cared that they were there. And now they are gone, does it matter? The passages where no one waits go on and give no promise of an end. You will find yourself among people, Faces, clothing, teeth and hair and words, and many words When there was life, I said that life was wrong. What do I say now? You understand?

  Paul Bowles

  Wall, Dark, Hair

  Paul Bowles (1994). “The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles”, Penguin Group USA

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• She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Men, Tears

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• Once people start throwing wet stuff, I go inside.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, People, Stuff

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• Then the sun broke above the crest of the hills and the entire countryside looked soaked in blood, the arroyos deep in shadow, the cones of dead volcanoes stark and biscuit-colored against the sky. I could smell pinion trees, wet sage, woodsmoke, cattle in the pastures, and creek water that had melted from snow. I could smell the way the country probably was when it was only a dream in the mind of God.

  James Lee Burke

  Dream, Country, Volcanoes

  James Lee Burke (2007). “Jesus Out to Sea: Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mistake, Apology, Looks

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.195, Penguin

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• Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other words, pretty normal.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Nice, Smart, Dark

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Smooth Talking Stranger: A Novel”, p.120, Macmillan

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• The first year of marriage is like wet cement

  Robert Wolgemuth

  Years, Firsts, First Year Marriage

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• Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

  Aeschylus

  Destiny, Men, Shadow

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Spring, Years, Normal

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Errors, Years

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.

  Isaac Newton

  Differences, Different, Watches

  David Brewster, Isaac Newton (1855). “Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton”, p.260

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• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• So my life and the life of my family has been completely disrupted in absolutely every way. But it's been worth it. It's uncovered a vast cesspool of illegitimate economic and political power in which the Church is immersed right up to its ears, and I intend to dive in headfirst and pull it out of there dripping wet for all the world to see -- no matter how long it takes, no matter whose feet get stepped on in the process, no matter how much it costs, no matter how great the personal sacrifice.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sacrifice, Feet, Long

  "Playboy Interview: Madalyn Murray". "Playboy" Magazine, October 1965.

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• The light is really the most important thing, so if you don't have skylights and if you don't have north light, this is like having a natural skylight. Light is the crucial factor. With wet oil paints, you don't want any hot spots or bounce.

  Pierre Coupey

  Light, Oil, Important

  "Dream Studio". opusartsupplies.com. October 30, 2011.

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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wall, Beer, Glasses

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't be wishy-washy. That's the most boring thing in the world, to be a middle-of-the-road wet noodle. That's my greatest fear, to be like, "Oh, whatever." That's just not who I am.

  Chris Black

  Greatest Fear, Who I Am, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To have regret is to be disappointed with yourself and your choices. Those who are wise, see their life like stepping stones across a great river. Everyone misses a stone from time to time. No one can cross the river without getting wet. Success is measured by your arrival on the other side, not on how muddy your shoes are. Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life’s purpose. They become so disillusioned that they stand still in the river and do not take the next leap.

  Colleen Houck

  Wise, Regret, Shoes

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• Fear is a wet blanket that smothers the fiery passion God deposited in your heart when he formed you. Fear freezes us into inaction. Frozen ideas, frozen souls, frozen bodies can't move, can't dream, can't risk, can't love, and can't live. Fear chains us.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Dream, Moving, Passion

  Stasi Eldredge (2013). “Becoming Myself: Embracing God's Dream of You”, p.108, David C Cook

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• The written word is redundant on the high seas. Why? Because paper gets wet too easily.

  Walter Moers

  Sea, Paper, Redundant

  Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.30, The Overlook Press

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• If you are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy's propensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

  Kenneth Kaye

  Guy, Balance, Boat

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• When he finished up with the Twins and even after he was done, he was always down on the field, so I had a chance to talk to him every time we came into town. Even my first couple of years - when I was still wet behind the ears - he was more than willing to come over and say, 'Hi.' Obviously, he didn't have to introduce himself, but he spent a little time and asked me how I was doing. And it always meant a lot. Anytime you have somebody of that stature on and off the field to take time and be willing to come talk to you, it means a lot.

  Tony Clark

  Couple, Mean, Years

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• I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

  Robert Fulghum

  Religious, Work, Dirty

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• I wanna be your t-shirt when it's wet, I wanna be your shower when you sweat.

  Bryan Adams

  Sex, Sweat, T Shirt

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