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Letter "D" » drowning
«Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.»
Author: Anais Nin
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Author)
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Keywords:
anxiety,
As You,
drowning,
holds,
killer,
might,
panic,
panicked,
panics,
save,
strangle,
strangles,
strangling,
The Killer,
The Killers
«It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.»
«Every new idea is born drowning»
«Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.»
«. . . That's what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . . that's what I have to go into before all my work is misunderstood and distorted and, and turned into a cartoon . . .»
«Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland»
Author: Josh Billings
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Humorist)
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Keywords:
boarding,
come in handy,
drowning,
handier,
Handy,
or else,
pond,
ponds,
Save the Children,
the pond,
water dog
«It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help»
«Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Funny,
Heroism
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Keywords:
belt,
belting,
belts,
belt up,
drowning,
heroine,
marries,
over again,
saved,
Ten Years Later
«A drowning man will catch a straw»
«He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion is perfect gallows.»