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Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.
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But we are in the age of the mediocre man. He is dull, colorless, boring--but inevitably victorious.
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the first batch of ads just after the couple broke up, and the second just before they got together again...two moments that the sponsors considered so suspenseful that the listener wouldn't be able to step away from the radio for fear of missing the resolution.
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there were more critics than painters, more publishers than writers, more teachers than practitioners.
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The effect of this was to make me abjure hackneyed expressions from an early age, so I suppose I benefited from my mother's phrasal insouciance in the long run, although it's possible that my automatic eschewal of cliches occasionally drove me from the Scylla of ridicule into the turbid Charybdisian eddies of sesquipedalian obfuscation...though I trust not.
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and it was a given of the Western genre, both on the radio and in the movies (it's interesting that one was 'on' the radio but 'in' the movies)
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Mother used to shape and score the Spam, arrange the rings of pineapple, then pour a little maple syrup over it and bake it so that it came out looking almost exactly like a miniature glazed ham, and we used to have it with yams on which we melted margarine.
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my job to color the margarine, putting the white, lard-like block into a bowl then sprinkling orange coloring powder over it and mixing with a fork until it was more brazenly yellow than any butter would dare to be.
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intentioned myth.
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Who must do the harsh things? He who can.
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Would the young men called to arms laugh and joke and exchange hearty platitudes in imitation of popular fiction, while they waited to be mutilated by the stupidity and arrogance of aged politicians?
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Diamond could not repress a sigh when he read that phrase. Miss Stern obviously suffered from the democratic delusion that all people are created interesting.
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basso ostinado
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Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience--twenty times.
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But I was a polite kid, so I went. Even the wildest and toughest of us kids, several of whom ended up in prison and one on death row, would be accounted polite by today's standards.
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Prudence is a bourgeois virtue, because the rich have something worth saving. The poor splurge because they need desperately to make a colorful splash across the drab fabric of their lives. The hungry don't dream of brown rice and vegetables; they dream of cake.
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Gardiyan elindeki tepside agir bir caydanlik ve iki kulpsuz Japon fincaniyla girdi. Cayi bardaklara sarsak hareketlerle, evcil bir ayiymis gibi bosaltti. Sanki zarafetten nasibi olmamak erkekligin kanitiymis gibi.
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gender-stereotypes
manhood
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She often said, and honestly believed, that she was not prejudiced--well, except in the case of Italian mobsters and drunken Irish loafers and stupid Poles and snooty Yankee Protestants, but then who wasn't?
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Nicholai bir yil boyunca olup bitenin farkina varmadi. Gunluk yasami bir suru kucuk olaylarla noktalanip olculuyor, cezaevi disindaki yasamla da hicbir ilgisi kalmamis bulunuyordu. Hicbir zaman cani sikilmamisti. Fizik kurallarina ters gorunen bir ilke vardi cunku. Zaman ancak, ici bos oldugu zaman agirdi.
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