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“I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.”

Needs Years Earth Fall Gold Believer Firm Shakes Miners Nuggets Year One Yukon

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point vegetables, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over all, and then, like a proficient striptease artist, remove the apron, allowing it to fall to the floor with a shake of her hips.”

Artist Fall Food Empty Cooking Hips Meat Shakes Remove Culinary Allowing Vegetables Handful Toss Stoves Sprinkles Aprons Parsley

Author:Bert Greene

“Were a man, whom I know to be honest and opulent, and with whom I live in intimate friendship, to come into my house, where I am surrounded with my servants, I rest assured, that he is not to stab me before he leaves it, in order to rob me of my silver standish; and I no more suspect this event, than the falling of the house itself which is new, and solidly built and founded.--But he may have been seized with a sudden and unknown frenzy.--So may a sudden earthquake arise, and shake and tumble my house about my ears.”

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Critical Edition

“The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.”

Long Stories Light Fall Answers Dying Wall Glory Blow Flying Shakes Lakes Leap Echoes Castles Summit Splendour Snowy Castle Walls

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the cynic has become the converted, the sceptic, an ardent zealot.”

“In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.”

People Ifs Years Certain Fall Tree Spring Shakes Savages Tribes Old People Guinea Another Year

Book:Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights

Source: Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights