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And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
W.H. Auden
correspondence
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If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
unknown author
beggars
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Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
unknown author
persistence
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Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love.
Woody Allen
masturbation | sex
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Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti
What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti ...
John Ashbery
humility | life
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The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the roo ...
Robert Benchley
smoking and smokers | pipes
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Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I ...
Muriel Box
love | hatred | men and women
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Any owner of cats will know of what I speak. Cats come at dawn to sit on your bed. They may not nip your nose or inhale your breat ...
Ray Bradbury
ideas | cats
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At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existe ...
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
responsibility | happiness | unhappiness
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If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is t ...
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th Earl
insults | injuries | revenge
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