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Rosie get off your desk, and please put your beard away.

I could have quite literally snogged until the cows came home. And when they came home I would have shouted, WHAT HAVE YOU COWS COME HOME FOR? CAN'T YOU SEE I'M SNOGGING, YOU STUPID HERBIVORES???

Love is the infinite placed within the reach of poodles. I have my dignity!

To make a long story short, you're all vile, dangerous, cowardly...

L'amour c'est l'infini mis à la portée des caniches et j'ai ma dignité moi !

Interrupted again! if it's not Jules it's the cat! that's the female speciality: interruptions!

I clung to the movies with a fervour born of despair.

Me trouvant imbibé préalablement de larges doses de cinéma je me trouvais mentalement à peu près dispos

This alleged Providence was the great subterfuge of maternal thoughtlessness.

Since we are nothing but packages of tepid, half-rated viscera, we shall always have trouble with sentiment.

She was having an attack of knuckleheaded anxiety. Those attacks last a long time.

Conor. "Yeah?" "This is my case," she said. "And you've got a missing woman to find, so I'm wondering why you're hanging around the boatyard with me." "I miss you, Jen," he said. "I never see you

knew I had a choice—I could fight him on his statement, stand up for myself and say it was hard to be understanding of someone who flew off the handle so easily.

She was a true paradox—so solitary, but with intense need for connection with the people she loved most.

she assumed the charge of their education, and performed the duties of an instructress as none, save a mother, is capable of.

I'm afraid to speak or move for fear that all this wonderful beauty will just vanish... like a broken silence.

What are you going to do with the money Anne? Let's all go up town and get drunk!

My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

tis true, 'tis pity, and 'tis pity, 'tis true.' what delightful things we might do were it not for Mrs. Harmon Andrews!

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.

The mechanism which we don't understand is not anything in our soul, but rather that of the life of this expression.

The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language.

Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred.

Me siento inclinado a decir que la expresión lingüística correcta del milagro de la existencia del mundo -a pesar de no ser una proposición en el lenguaje- es la existencia del lenguaje mismo