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Letter "P" » pairs
«I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.»
«I would show up for work and look at the pairs of tight, shiny shorts or jeans that made up our 54 wardrobe and wonder if we were making Showgirls...»
«We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.»
Author: Angela Carter
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
balances,
biographies,
bits,
bits and pieces,
cultural,
drag,
go to bed,
impedimenta,
pairs,
refer,
single bed,
social class,
social classes
«Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.»
«He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.»
Author: Louisa May Alcott
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Author)
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Keywords:
approvingly,
buff,
buffs,
buttonhole,
colored,
dandy,
Englishman,
gloves,
inches,
necktie,
neckties,
pairs,
rose-colored,
shrug,
shrugged,
shrugs,
sundry,
The Independent,
velvet
«If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
bereavement,
exception,
integral,
integral part,
pains,
pairs,
purgatorial,
separation,
sufferings,
suspecting,
The Dead,
universal
«Good luck seldom comes in pairs but bad things never walk (occur) alone»
«If you have one pair of good soles its better than two pairs of good uppers.»