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“I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.”

Long Moving Night Voice Friendship Watches Dog Car Conversation Window Confusion Rhythm Spite Numb Anthem Raindrops Voltage Long Conversations Stray Dogs

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it.”

Years Believe Done I Believe Office Spite Dirt Public Office

Author:Agnes Macphail

“Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried treasure. All endeavors to introduce permanence in love, the most changeable thing in this changeable human existence, have gone shipwreck in spite of religious ceremonies, vows, and legalities.”

Source: Venus in Furs

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

Source: Wishful Drinking

“I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.”

People Thinking Knows Should May Feelings Together America Happiness Joy Term Community Poverty Economic Missing Corruption Spite Living Together Joie De Vivre Community Living

Author:Youssou N'Dour

“The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.”

Men Mind Humans America Science Ability Type Climate Active Nervous Spite Delicate Organisms Frozen Strain Adjustment

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

“Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.”

Romance Mom Tradition Apples Spite Chickens Pie Soup Homemade Apple Pie American Tradition Chicken Soup

Author:L. J. Smith

“Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.”

Trying Has Beens Facts Film Technology Creative Keys Directors Protect Elements Spite New Technology Erode

Author:John Frankenheimer

“In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.”

House Poor Cities Streets Building Spite Athens Luxurious Narrow Streets

Book:The House: Its Origins and Evolution

Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution

“In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.”

Way Real Character Stories Happened Hero Horror Laughter Real Life Cruelty Spite Controlled Survived Degradation My Hero

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?”

Ifs Doe Said Mother Loses Spite Flavor Gum Chewing Unanswered Questions Chewing Gum

Author:Lonnie Donegan