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• It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

  Irvine Welsh

  Beautiful, Sea, Leaving

  Irvine Welsh (2008). “Trainspotting”, p.17, Random House

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• If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Book, Islands, Desert

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• Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

  Edmund Burke

  Europe, Whales, Spain

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• The Saint Bernards work best in teams of at least three dogs. They are sent out on patrols following storms, and they wander the paths looking for stranded travelers. If they come upon a victim, two dogs lie down beside the person to keep him warm; one of the two licks his face to stimulate him back to consciousness. Meanwhile, another dog will have already started back to the hospice to sound the alarm.

  Stanley Coren

  Dog, Lying, Team

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• Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

  Renny Harlin

  Strange Places, Cards, Credit

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

  Katherine Paterson

  Home, Moon, Self

  Katherine Paterson (1995). “Bridge to Terabithia”, Hippo Bks

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• It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Nyu, Transformation, Malls

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• The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

  Pat Robertson

  Beach, Party, Thinking

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• Spain- a great whale stranded on the shores of Europe.

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith

  Europe, Whales, Spain

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• Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.

  Bill Bryson

  Order, Quests, Tiny

  FaceBook post by Bill Bryson from Mar 09, 2013

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• For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the whistler running from the scene. Liesel did not. The book thief saw only the mechanics of the words--their bodies stranded on the paper, beaten down for her to walk on. Somewhere, too, in the gaps between a period and the next capital letter, there was also Max. She remembered reading to him when he was sick. It he in the basement? she wondered. Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?

  Markus Zusak

  Running, Book, Reading

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• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Islands, Champagne

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• I’m not stealing it. We’re stranded. This is called borrowing.” “This is called you’re crazy.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Crazy, Stealing, Borrowing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.462, Simon and Schuster

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• Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Responsibility, Reality, Car

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• Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

  Huey Newton

  Jobs, School, Youth

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• Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Running, Dark

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• Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Broken, Littles

  Song: 2Pac + Outlawz F Ta'He---Still I Rise

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• Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Self Esteem, Thinking

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• 3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is a box of 10 Mars bars The Banker says "Because of my expertise in asset management, I''ll look after our resources" The other 2 agree So the Banker opens the box, gobbles down 9 of the Mars bars and hands the last one to the Daily Mail reader He then says " I'd keep an eye on that Asylum seeker, he's after your Mars Bar

  Christopher Brookmyre

  Eye, Islands, Hands

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• My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.

  Rex Hunt

  Thinking, Whales, Wife

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way.

  Lady Gaga

  Angel, Rainbow, Watches

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Feb 24, 2010

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• Sugar leaves you stranded; I make sure I have the proper amount of protein before I work out.

  Evander Holyfield

  Work Out, Sugar, Protein

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• What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

  John Banville

  Grief, Ocean, Weight

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• I could be stranded in any town in the United States with ten cents and within an hour make $20 with the shell game.

  W. C. Fields

  Games, United States, Shells

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• When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Home, Space, Needs

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.177, W. W. Norton & Company

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