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Rex Stout quote: "The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if..."

The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.

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5152They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the... Vladimir Mayakovsky
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He who was living is now dead. We who were living are now dying. T. S. Eliot
I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart. Jodi Picoult
I've always found it not only easy, but enjoyable. It's necessary for us to reach out and I'm speaking for myself here. I certainly have a sense of responsibility to reach out to these people in the theatre who might look to someone like me for some guidance. Harvey Keitel
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards what shore it would drive her, if it would be a shallop or a three-decker, laden with anguish or full of bliss to the portholes. But each morning, as she awoke, she hoped it would come that... Gustave Flaubert
Henry A. Kissinger quote: "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously."
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. Henry A. Kissinger
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. Jean Cocteau
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Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think. Theodor Adorno
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I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent. Danny Bonaduce
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? Diogenes of Sinope
I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in. Avril Lavigne
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum. Tallulah Bankhead
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait. Otto Frank