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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size


Melissa Nathan


#melissa-nathan #paraphrased #pride-and-prejudice #humor

If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added.


Olaotan Fawehinmi


#best-complete #better #better-half #complete #half

It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers.


Neil Gaiman


#paraphrased #simile #simile

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.


Charles Dickens


#quotations #similes #well-worn-phrases #wisdom #simile

If there is a God, the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.


Steve Allen


#god #him #holy #must #phrase

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.


George Eliot


#even #experience #human #human experience #incongruous

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.


W. Somerset Maugham


#becomes #book #come #eyes #i

Success is like a liberation or the first phrase of a love story.


Jeanne Moreau


#liberation #like #love #love story #phrase

A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.


George Orwell


#control #describing #england #family #members

Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.


Michael Pollan


#comic writing #finding #funny #funny way #i






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