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• The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail.

  Wole Soyinka

  Hands, Dip, Pot

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• Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home has to be something that is part of you and can be equally a part of you wherever you are. I think that not having a home is a good inducement to creating a metaphysical home and to being able to see it in more invisible ways.

  Pico Iyer

  Home, Thinking, Creating

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The further off from England the nearer is to France-
  Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dance, Dancing, France

  The Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Lewis Carroll, Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери, Шарль Перро (2016). “Fairy Story / Сказки Мира (ENGLISH EDITION + RUSSIAN EDITION): The Classic Fairy Tales And Folktales / Классика Всемирного Наследия”, p.85, Slavamax BVBA

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• I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

  Diane Lane

  Hands, Letters, Mail

  "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

  Jules Renard

  Fashion, Character, Men

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.269, Tin House Books

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• Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

  Stephen King

  Men, Brain, Body

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

  James Stephens

  Wise, Asking Questions, Shells

  James Stephens (2015). “Irish Fairy Tales”, p.49, Booklassic

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• You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

  Bill Mollison

  Ducks, Problem, Permaculture

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• I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

  Marlon Brando

  Dream, Razors, Nightmare

  "Fictional character: Colonel Walter E. Kurtz". "Apocalypse Now", www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.

  Debra Dean

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything.

  Celia Thaxter

  Animal, Shells, Slime

  Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.7, Applewood Books

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• Though snails are exceedingly slow,
  There is one thing I'd like to know.
  If I out run 'em round the yard,
  How come they beat me to the chard?

  Allen Klein

  Running, Garden, Yards

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• Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Moving, Turtles, House

  Interview with Alain Elkann, alainelkanninterviews.com. October 8, 2014.

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• Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.

  William Shakespeare

  Procrastination, Delay, Beggary

  William Shakespeare, James R. Siemon (2009). “King Richard III: Third Series”, p.332, A&C Black

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• Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with

  Charles Correa

  Attitude, Years, Agendas

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• Children, as persons, are entitled to the greatest respect. Children are given to us as free-flying souls, but then we clip their wings like we domesticate the wild mallard. Children should become the role-models for us, their parents, for they are coated with the spirit from which they came- out of the ether, clean, innocent, brimming with the delight of life, aware of the beauty of the simplest thing; a snail, a bud.

  Gerry Spence

  Children, Wings, Role Models

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.202, St. Martin's Press

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• God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

  Robert Browning

  Spring, Heaven, Larks

  Pippa Passes pt. 1 (1841)

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• A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

  Alejo Carpentier

  Eye, Men, Alphabet

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• Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

  Mason Cooley

  Flags, Emblems, United Nations

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• I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Woods

  "Bill Bailey: Bewilderness". Documentary, Comedy, 2001.

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• Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in trouble for it, I got suspended for doing it. For saving the snails I kept about four or five hundred of them at the back of the class -- in Snail Land. We were like six or seven or something, people didn't even realise what they were doing. I had a strange compassion for snails. And the teacher just chucked them all in the trash in the end.

  Robert Pattinson

  Teacher, School, Compassion

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• It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula. That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Writing, Issues, Ethical Questions

  "Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Unenchanted Evening", p. 39, 1993.

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• Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kangaroos, Revolution, Evolution

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• Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a gazelle when you can't catch a breath.

  Simon Birch

  Race, Monsters, Gazelles

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