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• surprise
• die
• wedding

She would do a mans work when she needed to, but she lived and died without ever putting on a pair of pants. She wore dresses. Being a widow, she wore them black. Being a woman of her time she wore them long. the girls of her day I think must have been like well wrapped gifts to be opened by their husbands on their wedding night, a complete surprise. 'Well! What's this!? Wendell Berry

• beautiful
• tea
• fire

It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties. Anthony Bourdain

• life
• sea
• rising

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her. Jean Rhys

• flower
• children
• saying

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers. Mother Teresa

• comforting
• house
• sharing

Earlier in my life I thought the things that mattered were the things that you could see, like your car, your house, your wealth, your property, your office. But as I've grown older I've become convinced that the things that matter most are the things that you can't see -- the love you share with others, your inner purpose, your comfort with who you are. Jimmy Carter

• personality
• personal
• sensibility

I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person.~ Merlyn T. H. White

• feeling
• to live
• wonder

I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there. Meg Cabot

• death
• evening
• reasonably

Even though my reason wanted the state of death, I was afraid like a virgin of the act. Graham Greene

• weird
• curiosity
• nature

Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten. Hunter S. Thompson

• childhood
• innocent
• heart

To value only what can be "sold" is to defile what is truly precious. The innocent joy of childhood, the devotedness of a wife, the self sacrificing service of a daughter--none of these have an earthly market. To reduce everything to the dirty scales of economic values is to forget that some gifts, like Mary's, are so precious that the heart that offers them will be praised as long as time endures. Fulton J. Sheen

• classes
• talking
• talkative

I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people. Jackie Mason

• touching
• reminded
• were

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom. Paul Theroux

• kindness
• cold
• work

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly. Ernest Gaines

• good
• missing
• fall

Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them. Evelyn Waugh

• light
• change
• look

The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression. Carrie Fisher