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A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.


Jean Stafford
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Madame de Stael
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
Florence King
As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
Taj Mahal
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I think we all have light and dark inside us.


Sean Penn
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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Twyla Tharp
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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
Octavio Paz
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I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.
Arthur Darvill
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In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished.
Stephen Gardiner
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I found a correlation between the spreading of democracy after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise in slavery. Now, as countries, former Communist countries, became so-called democratic, people started to be enslaved by their own countrymen.
Loretta Napoleoni
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.


W. Somerset Maugham
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Brevity is the soul of wit.


William Shakespeare
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.


Earl Nightingale
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Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.
Matt Haig
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The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.
Elizabeth Warren
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Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.


Margaret Cavendish
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Often there is a wall between the journalist and the star because there is usually not much time to get to know a person, and the star is always asked the same questions, and may be defensive.
Ruud Gullit
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The well of true wit is truth itself.


George Meredith
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A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.


Alexander Pope
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The good thing about Twitter is that there's not so much of a wall between you and your fan base. They can interact with you, and it makes them more endeared to you when you interact with them.
Sinqua Walls
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