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One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits... by Gustave Flaubert

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Gustave Flaubert
shells one-day writing

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

Haruki Murakami
shells frogs scared

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

Hildegard of Bingen
shells body spirit
I had drawn away into the salt, by Hilda Doolittle

I had drawn away into the salt,

Hilda Doolittle
shells salt solitude

All those words of praise they use for novels - spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?

Howard Jacobson
shells use praise

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Howard Tayler
mercenary shells winning
Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shel... by Friedrich Nietzsche

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell.

Friedrich Nietzsche
shells compassion should

If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.

Haruki Murakami
shells essence might

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.

Huston Smith
shells different essence

England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked during the First World War… I love it.

Ian Hislop
shells war world

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.

Isaac Newton
shells ocean understanding

If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

J. G. Ballard
shells office people
If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on... by J. M. Coetzee

If I, this mortal shell, am going to die, let me at least live on through my creations.

J. M. Coetzee
shells let-me creation
Strength is an empty shell. by Jack London

Strength is an empty shell.

Jack London
shells empty strength
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have be... by Jackson Pollock

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

Jackson Pollock
shells bored people

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
shells asking-questions wise
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering n... by J. K. Rowling

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

J. K. Rowling
tortoises shells jewels

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

James Surowiecki
shells victim may

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

Jay Baruchel
shells eggs facts

What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was everything I ever wanted to be, but it became a kind of shell, non? It was what made me famous and got me women. But it wasn't real.

Jean-Claude Van Damme
shells stars real
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