#hem

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

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I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#again #back #go #grown #hard

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#above #apart #flaws #gets #great

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#brings #depend #good #good art #i

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#i #legs #many #more #myself

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#change #exact #exactly #figure #give

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them. ↗

— David Walliams

#i #laughter #liked #shows #them

When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening. ↗

— David Walliams

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I just put myself in a hotel and was smoking coke for a while. Then I met up with the wrong people. I ended up getting in a hassle. I had to call the police and get myself arrested or get attacked, ripped off and got to jail. So I called the cops on them and myself. ↗

— Marc Wallice

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I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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