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#1. Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Their bony branches grew barer with each tearing wind. Their tall, leaning forms looked like a gateway to a long-abandoned world.
They lived. Their roots were much deeper than mine would ever be. One day my tree would fall and die, gnawed by serpents.

Heather Crews

#3. The moors themselves were barer, of course. The heather still grew, but the moorland grasses were gone; the outcrops of rocks jutted like teeth in the head of a skull.

John Christopher

#4. The salt hung on his spirit like a frost,
The dead brine melted in him like a dew
Of winter, until nothing of himself
Remained, except some starker, barer self
In a starker, barer world, in which the sun
Was not the sun because it never shone
With bland complaisance ...

Wallace Stevens

#5. Well, if you don't like the idea of one world, how many worlds do you want, and how would you like them divided? By race? By religion? By income? Unless you have a spare planet in your pocket, one world is all we have.

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#6. Authority is established by God for the wellbeing of His people

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.

William Shakespeare

#8. My wife is younger. At one point, I was twice her age. Of course, I was six at the time.

Jarod Kintz

#9. The truth exists in the minds of those who remember.

Jill Thrussell

#10. There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.

Charles Stanley

#11. ...dancing with someone who is causing you pain is a bit like trying to smile while having a tooth extracted.

Kapka Kassabova

#12. You can buy a Talking Barbie anywhere, but you can't even special order Listening Ken.

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#13. But we could not, for if one attempted to look into the future one would see nothing; it was like peeping into a person's earhole.

Chigozie Obioma

#14. The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland.

Timothy Noah

#15. It all comes out in the wash. It's just the spin cycle that makes you crazy

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#16. Each humid, tropic day is stillborn, and does not breathe, however lustily pregnant the night that gave it birth.

Beryl Markham

#17. The experience of learning how to Relabel, Reframe, Refocus, and Revalue was eye-opening for them because it allowed them to see that their time could be better spent on other pursuits and in healthier ways.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#18. There are very few Americans who honestly care who Lindsay Lohan is dating. But it's still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they're worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they're missing.

Chuck Klosterman

#19. Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?

Frederic Bastiat

#20. Movies are not about moving, but about whether to move.

Roger Ebert

#21. I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Graeme Murphy

#22. Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.

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