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«In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?''»
«Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?»
Author: Guy de Maupassant
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back and forth, darting, fascinating, hitting, lively, pleasing, seeming, touching, trifles
«If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.»
Author: Sylvia Plath
(Novelist, Poet)
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back and forth, exclusive, flying, mutually, mutually exclusive, one and the same, wanting
«Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just shorta do'em all together, I guess.»
«We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.»
«The great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each but in the amount of intelligent work. Many of those who fail most ignominiously do enough to achieve grand success but they labor haphazardly at whatever they are assigned, building up with one hand to tear down with the other. They do not grasp circumstances and change them into opportunities. They have no faculty for turning honest defeats into telling victories. With ability enough and ample time, the major ingredients of success, they are forever throwing back and forth an empty shuttle and the real web of their life is never woven.»
Author: Og Mandino
(Essayist, Psychologist)
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«It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money. - Deep Thoughts ( Saturday Night Live)»
Author: Jack Handy
(Writer)
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back and forth, forth, guess, rocking, Saturday, Saturday Night, Saturday Night Live, sitting, sit back, wanting
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