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Letter "S" » sort of
«Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.»
«Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?»
Author: George Sand
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Keywords:
accepted,
adores,
adoring,
believed,
blush,
blushed,
blushes,
captured,
captures,
capturing,
deliberately,
false,
frantic,
regret,
shame,
shown,
sort,
sort of,
struggle,
without reasoning
«It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.»
Author: Gwyneth Paltrow
(
Actress)
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About:
Change,
Life
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Keywords:
break of day,
broke,
changed,
In Me,
permanently,
sort,
sorted,
sorting,
sort of,
sort out,
split,
splits,
splitting,
split up
«Most people have some sort of religion, at least they know which church they're staying away from»
Author: John Erskine
(
Educator,
Musician,
Novelist)
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About:
Religion
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Keywords:
at least,
church,
Church A,
Church of the,
least,
my church,
sort,
sorted,
sorting,
sort of,
sort out,
staying
«One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.»
Author: Stephen Sondheim
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About:
Music,
Poetry
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Keywords:
background,
backgrounds,
Background and,
fade,
in the background,
live on,
lyric,
lyrics,
page,
set to,
set to music,
sort,
sort of,
stage,
stage set,
The Stage
«My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!»
Author: Dr. Seuss
(
Cartoonist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
alphabet,
alphabets,
letter,
letter of the alphabet,
poked,
pokes,
poking,
sort,
sort of,
spell,
spell out,
starts,
surprised,
The Letter
«It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
beginning,
beyond,
boated,
boating,
boats,
broken,
burned,
burned at,
burning in,
burn in,
burn out,
burn up,
curious,
end,
feeling,
goes,
matters,
mercifully,
pain,
peace,
powers,
sensation,
sort,
sorted,
sorting,
sort of,
sort out,
The Beginning,
The End
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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About:
Generations,
Hope,
Life
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Keywords:
brief,
briefed,
briefest,
briefing,
brightly,
burn,
candle,
for the moment,
generations,
handing,
hand made,
have got,
make it,
onto,
sort,
sort of,
splendid,
torch,
torches
«I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.»
Author: Jack Handy
(
Writer)
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Keywords:
bark,
creatures,
dogs,
fur,
furred,
huge,
motionless,
quiet,
sort,
sort of,
tend,
trees
«Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Common sense,
Mistakes
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Keywords:
common mistake,
common sense,
creeping,
creep in,
creep up,
crept,
late,
nowadays,
regrets,
sort,
sort of,
Too late