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muck about
«Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer. Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, happy -- till I woke up again.»
«When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.»
«Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.»
Author: James P. Cannon
| About:
Newspapers
| Keywords:
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«To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
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«Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.»
Author: Andrea Dworkin
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access, astonished, best of them, muck, mucked, muck about, pornography, shelves, supermarket, supermarkets
«Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
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«It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
| Keywords:
Adam, Adam and Eve, all right, begged, boundless, Eden, Eve, exasperation, Garden of, Garden of Eden, In the Garden, muck, mucked, muck about, procreate, Procreates, procreating, The Fall, The Garden, to seem
«Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.»
Author: Dorothy Parker
(Poet, Writer)
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back off, birds, every year, get off the ground, ground, heads, head off, mucked, muck about, nastier, nastiest, nasty, plants, spring
«Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason.»
Author: Douglas Adams
(Writer)
| About:
New York
| Keywords:
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«Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
muck, mucked, muck about
