The Alarms Were Blasting...Ten Escapees From My Quote Folder

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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, 

spits on its hands, and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

When a woman hides nothing of herself 

I am incapable of understanding her.

Italo Calvino

A government that robs Peter 
to pay Paul can always depend on 

the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

What one commonly called one’s self was merely 

a collective term for all the selves 
gathered up in the past.

Frederich Durenmatt

Fair and foul are near of kin
And fair needs foul.

William Butler Yeats

You can only be young once, 

but you can be immature forever.

Philip Roth

Our eyes play a greater part than we care to admit 

in that active exploration of the past to which 
we give the name of memory.

Marcel Proust

The only way you hurt the body is to not use it.

Jack Lalanne

I took my brains and stretched them on the rack

I’m not so sure I’ll ever get them back

Paul McCartney

The only problem with the human equation 

is that all variables are in 
direct contradiction with each other.

Paul Oliverio

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