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• And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

  Victor Hugo

  Christmas, Night, Air

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• I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

  Stephen Bruner

  Teeth, Bass, Firsts

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Night, Eight

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

  Bill Hicks

  Laughter, Littles, Bitter

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• The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.

  Emma Goldman

  Children, Philosophy, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.27, 谷月社

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• All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated from the pips.

  W. C. Fields

  Insulting, Plums, England

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• The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.

  Joseph Campbell

  Dream, Hero, Men

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.89, New World Library

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• What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Bombs, Shock, Impression

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• No doubt, the poetry, overjoyed by swallowing the beverage of passionate thoughts, delights the mind. But she does not realize the sorrows and troubles of the poor. Forget depicting the beauty of passions and present your poetry as a necklace of thought gems to swell the soul.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Passion, Soul, Doubt

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Lost Love, Hands, Space

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• The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Struggle, Fighting, Past

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

  Charles Edward Montague

  Girl, Mean, Perspective

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• It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue of idealists. And you do not want a Napoleon . All that is needed is direction, which could be given by men of far lower gifts than a Bonaparte. In a word, you want a Power-House, and then the age of miracles will begin.

  John Buchan

  Men, House, Miracle

  John Buchan (2016). “The Complete Works of John Buchan (Unabridged): Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Works, The Great War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs – All in One Volume”, p.1674, e-artnow

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• Unlike the urban development that I see taking over and swallowing up our precious soil, when we interact with our environment in a way that allows for regeneration and natural spaces, the outcome can be beautiful.

  Cory Trepanier

  Beautiful, Urban Development, Space

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• Animal crackers in my soup Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop Gosh oh gee but I have fun Swallowing animals one by one In every bowl of soup I see Lions and Tigers watching me I make 'em jump right through a hoop Those animal crackers in my soup When I get hold of the big bad wolf I just push him under to drown Then I bite him in a million bits And I gobble him right down When their inside me where it's dark I walk around like Noah's ark I stuff my tummy like a goop With animal crackers in my soup.

  Shirley Temple

  Fun, Dark, Animal

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• I can see thru mountains watch me disappear, I can even touch the sky. Swallowing the colors of the sounds I hear, am I just a crazy guy? You bet.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Crazy, Color, Sky

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• At the moment I'm just swallowing it all as part of the humiliation but I think - and this is aimed at my dear manager - one shouldn't humiliate players for too long

  Jens Lehmann

  Player, Thinking, Long

  "No twinkle toes, no imagination as England dance to wrong tune" by Paul Weaver, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Swlmmlng After swallowing some water at Changsha I taste a Wuchang fish in the surf and swim across the Yangtze River that winds ten thousand li. I see the entire Chu sky. Wind batters me, waves hit me-I don't care. Better than walking lazily in the patio. Today I have a lot of time. Here on the river the Master said "Dying-dying into the past-is like a river flowing."

  Mao Zedong

  Past, Wind, Sky

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• Fine food is poison. It can be as bitter as antimony and bitter almonds and as repulsive as swallowing live toads. Like the poison the emperor took every day to stop himself being poisoned, fine food must be taken daily until the system becomes immune to its ravages and the taste buds beaten and abused to the point where they not only accept but savour every vile concoction under the sun.

  Lisa St. Aubin de Terán

  Taken, Taste Buds, Poison

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• So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Garden, Names

  Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg, M.D. (2006). “Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour”, p.9, Crown Archetype

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• The best protection against propaganda of any sort is the recognition of it for what it is. Only hidden and undetected oratory is really insidious. What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious; you do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

  Mortimer Adler

  Taken, Heart, Thinking

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is like swallowing hot chocolate before it has cooled off. It takes you by surprise at first, but keeps you warm for a long time.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Valentines Day, Romantic Love, Love Is

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• Dain kept his gaze on his plate and concentrated on swallowing the morsel he'd just very nearly choked on. She was possessive... about him. The beautiful, mad creature - or blind and deaf creature, or whatever she was - coolly announced it as one might say, "Pass the salt cellar," without the smallest awareness that the earth had just tilted on its axis.

  Loretta Chase

  Beautiful, Axes, Mad

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• Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Darkness, Stories, Pieces

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• Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Self, Snakes

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.19, Harper Collins

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