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«I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth.»

Author: Bill Hicks (Comedian) | Keywords: bothers, Fuckin, shut, smoke, suggest

«It is one thing putting away the past, and quite another to tape its mouth shut»

Author: Liam Lacey | About: Past | Keywords: putting, shut, tape, tapes, taping

«It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.»

Author: Patrick Henry (Lawyer) | About: Hope, Illusion, Mankind | Keywords: Against A, anguish, anguished, anguishes, apt, beasts, cost, illusions, indulge, indulges, painful, provide, provide for, shut, siren, Sirens, song, The Song of, The Whole Truth, transforms

«I shut my eyes in order to see.»

Author: Paul Gauguin | About: Ability, Art, Artist, Imagination, Inspiration | Keywords: shut

«It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.»

Author: Salman Rushdie (Writer) | About: Books | Keywords: offended, offending, offends, shut

«Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.»

Author: Saskya Pandita | Keywords: Avoiding, birds, cage, cage in, danger, fly, flying bird, freely, misfortune, parrot, parrots, shut, shut up, speech, talkative, talking, The Cage

«If you want to save face, keep the lower half shut»

Author: Ann Landers (Advice columnist) | Keywords: face, half, lower, lowered, lowering, lowers, save, shut, shutting, shut in

«Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.»