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«Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.»
Author: Ann Landers
(Advice columnist)
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ahead, backward, future, gets, lies, look backward, nobody
«Serve the dinner backward, do anything-but for goodness sake, do something weird.»
«When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.»
«We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.»
Author: Anais Nin
(Author)
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«There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.»
«The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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backward, backward and forward, come forward, farther, forward, forwarding, forwards, furthest, likely, look, look backward, see, The Forward
«The sound shivers through the walls, through the table, through the window frame, and into my finger. These distraction-oholics. These focus-ophobics. Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed... and this being fed, it's worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what's in your mind. With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
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absorbed, absorbs, atrophied, atrophies, atrophy, awake, backward, bad hat, big brother, brother, dancing, distracted, distracting, distraction, distractions, distracts, elder brother, Fed, filling, finger, focus, frame, frames, framing, fully, George, George I, George Orwell, hat, holding, I frame, of sound mind, Orwell, pulling, rabbits, rabbit on, shiver, shivering, shivers, singing, table, the George, The Sound, the threat of, threat, walls, watched, watching, window, window frame
«Silence moves faster when it's going backward.»
«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
anguish, backward, burned-out, Burns, burnt-out, cures, desperate, giddy, infection, infections, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, lessen, rank
«Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
backward, Hast, wilt, wilted, wilting, wilts
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