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“I have lived carefully, sheltered myself from the cold winds, eaten moderately of what was in season, drunk fine claret, slept in my own sheets; I shall live long.”

Long My Own Wind Fine Cold Seasons Drunk Sheets Claret Cold Wind

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.”

Ifs Men Should Left My Own Principles He Man Wind Fool Republican Standing Abuse Bills Clinton My Time Devices Stations Bus Fairness Unfair Pointing Hideous Chili

Author:Molly Ivins

“Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.”

Bigs Literature Names Waiting My Own Behinds Leader Century Wind Shadow Vote Opposition Twentieth Century Cabinets Winds Of Change

Author:Hugh Kingsmill

“The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.”

My Own Sea Wind Vessel Neighbour

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.”

Wells I Can My Own Wind Bird Blow

Book:Adam Bede

Source: Adam Bede

“I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.”

Source: Images: my life in film

“I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.”

Looks Children I Can Book Home My Own Grief Watches Wind Sitting Nostalgia Paralyzed Snapshots

Author:Francine Prose

“I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide: Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding; Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.”

Country Would Be Sides My Own Walks Wind Mountain Blow Guides Grey Feeding Flocks Country Life Vex

Book:Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Source: Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell