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Letter "T" » The Wall
«George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.»
«Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.»
Author: Louis Kahn
| Keywords:
architecture, became, column, consider, event, momentous, parted, The Wall, wall
«Democrats give away their old clothes; Republicans wear theirs. Republicans employ exterminators; Democrats step on the bugs. Democrats eat the fish they catch; Republicans stuff 'em and hang 'em on the wall.»
Author: Sean Donlon
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
bugs, Democrats, eating away, eat away, employ, exterminator, exterminators, give away, Republicans, step on, the fish, The Wall, wear away
«And in a chair well-knownMy mother sat, and did not tireWith reading all alone.If I should make the slightest soundTo show that I'm awake,She'd rise, and lap the blankets round,My pillow softly shake;Kiss me, and turn my face to seeThe shadows on the wall,And then sing Rousseau's Dream to me,Till fast asleep I fall.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
| Keywords:
blankets, chair, fast asleep, lap, pillow, Rousseau, slightest, softly, sound asleep, The Shadows, The Wall, tire, well known
«Food is to eat, not to frame and hang on the wall.»
«And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the wall.»
«It's all the mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
(Journalist, Novelist, Satirist)
| Keywords:
gun, The Mirror, The Wall, wall
«America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.»
«All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long»
«A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
beat, captive, fainting, faints, falsehood, hates, The Captive, The Wall, wall
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