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Heywood Broun quote: "Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor..."
Any given censor is a fool. The very fact that he is a censor indicates that. Heywood Broun
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. C. S. Lewis
Don DeLillo quote: "What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of..."
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. Don DeLillo
Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. Corrie Ten Boom
Winston Churchill quote: "This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being..."
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read. Winston Churchill
Do you believe that you will die? Yes, man is mortal, I am a man, ergo... No, that isn't what I mean. I know that you know that. What I'm asking is: Have you ever actually believed it, believe it completely, believe not with your mind but with your body, actually felt that one day the fingers now holding this very piece of paper will be yellow and icy...? Yevgeny Zamyatin
Charles Olson quote: "The original in man is that which articulates him from the..."
The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself. Charles Olson
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. quote: "The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it..."
The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to.-Treebeard/Fangorn J. R. R. Tolkien
Well, of course, it was not any of my business but you get very queer glimpses of life sometimes, and you can't help speculating about them. Agatha Christie
Stephen King quote: "Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its..."
Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument. Stephen King
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society. Joseph Ratzinger
Leo Tolstoy quote: "To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are..."
To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. Leo Tolstoy
Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: "The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring. J. R. R. Tolkien
The party and the Krikkit warship looked, in their writhings, a little like two ducks, one of which is trying to make a third duck inside the second duck, whilst the second duck is trying very hard to explain that it doesn't feel ready for a third duck right now, is uncertain that it would want any putative third duck anyway, and certainly not whilst it, the second duck, was busy flying. Douglas Adams

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